Newness of Life

We did not do this! We did not think up and bring into existence manhood, womanhood, the amazing processes of conception and how the single cell produced from the union of a sperm and ovum has within it the secret inconceivable "knowledge" to produce a whole new human being with a beating heart and seeing eyes!  We did not do the earth with its hippopotamuses, octopi, seahorses, crocodiles, redwood forests, water in many forms, changing sky and weather patterns! We did not do our own amazing bodies that support and protect us automatically. We did not do our own minds! We live in our bodies and our minds, and we do not even understand them! An earthworm is more complex than our space station, computers, and cell phones! The complex interwovenness of the plant and animal life in our back yards and undeveloped woods is an infinite source of amazement and awe if we can get unplugged from man-made things long enough to really see it. Everything man has created was made with things he did not create, and with the use of his mind--which he did not create.
Whether you are a theist [as am I] or an atheist, this is an amazing situation for us to be in: this life-journey; this consciousness; this ability to know that we know, and to contemplate the universe. Of course, since we were born into it, the normal course of human development is to lose our since of wonder by late childhood. "Oh, that's just a tree." Only when we see something new does that wonder re-emerge.   But it can also be resurrected by spiritual growth--by consciously choosing to look deeply into life with new eyes and a new heart. The Bible says, "If anyone abide in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things pass away; everything becomes new." Everything becomes new! Eleanor Farjeon wrote:
Morning has broken like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.
Praise for the singing; praise for the morning. Praise for them springing fresh from the Word.
Sweet the rains new fall, sunlit from heaven, like the first dew fall on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden sprung in completeness where His feet pass.
Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning, born of the one Light Eden saw play.
Praise with elation. Praise every morning, God's recreation of the new day!
Tagore caught the spirit of this newness and wonder in his simple statement: "The same sun is newly born, in new lands, in a ring of endless dawns." Endless dawn. The Bible describes our awakening into Truth along the path of righteousness as the "dawning of the sun, shining brighter and brighter, to the full light of day." [Prov. 4:18] Someone has said "You can never put your foot in the same river twice."
We live on the cutting edge of eternity. Each second is like the sharp blade of a knife, cutting into the future, separating the present from the past! And the process that brings everything into its proper focus, gives meaning, and constantly renews the great adventure of life is to use the gift of our conscious will to peacefully love all people with the Love of Jesus the Christ. If you can think of anything better than that to do with your life, please do it. I've racked my brain, and I cannot. But if you cannot think of anything better than that to do with your life, then please don't waste the amazing gift of your precious life on anything less.