Ok... so. This will pretty much just be me prattling on about this and that, and it may not make a whole lot of sense. Really I'm doing it because I desperately need to process my thoughts or I may just go insane. So, here goes nothin'.
I'm reading The Shack right now, and to be honest. I wish I'd gotten my hands on it sooner. But then again, I'm not so sure I would have been able handle all of the concepts that it has been throwing my way. Like, for instance, creation, aside from human beings.
"Sarayu, I know you are the Creator, but did you make the poisonous plants, the stinging nettles, and mosquitos too?"
"Mackenzie, a created being can only take what already exists and from it fashion something different."
"So, you are saying that you..."
"created everything that actually exists, including what you consider the bad stuff. But when I created it, it was only good, because that is just the way I am."
"But.. then why has so much of the 'good' gone 'bad'?"
"You humans, so little in your own eyes. You are truly blind to your own place in the creation. Having chosen the ravaged path of independence, you don't even comprehend that you are dragging the entire creation along with you."
Ok...what? I have always been interested in how creation fits into everything. And this idea rocked my world. To be honest I'm not sure how I feel about it. I've got two ideas emulating in my mind right now... This one; that because of our choice since day one in the garden to choose independence over God, emulating our own ideas and structures, we cause creation to fall with us because we inhabit the earth, or....
Natural disasters are God's way of showing us who is in charge. I mean, there was the great flood after all.
It's a crazy thing to think about.. especially because there's no way that an intangible nature that has no choice could 'sin,' right? Sin entailing natural disasters of course. So I suppose, at least based upon human understanding, the idea that our fall caused nature to fall as well doesn't really make much sense..
Unless there is something to be said about the realness of such expressions as 'the mountains cry out....,' but again, that doesn't seem to make much sense either...
And yet again, could it be because of the system we have engrossed ourselves in? I mean... we are so used to hierarchy operating system that not much else would make sense.... especially such a crazy relationship between God and man and Nature..
Anyway, to be honest, I'm not really sure where I'm going with all of this. All I know is, I desire that original relationship as it was intended to be, no matter how crazy it may look.
Peace.
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