2023-10-27 A Meditation on Human Experience

“15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.” (Eph 1:15–23)

A Holy Spirit guards us through all human experience, that experience being subject matter of discourse or to write on: peaceably, behind friendly lines, the cogs are oiled, the wheels turn; supervening Peace and composure does replace that panic attack, that hiding out fresh from a turn into society’s arms. We travel and journey and visit and cope, cope with a peace from the Holy Spirit who in dominion does Protect.

That is, Man’s, Woman’s inclination is to be master of her or his own fate. To make judicious decisions. To take the helm, and from that helm to choose the principled and moral route. Yet what this analysis forgets is that all of us are This Day writing up a storm, living out a calling, existing in a cause, poignant and pugnacious: the human experience has turned Mandatory, Evocative, Determined unto a dance with death, Painstakingly ramped up, amped, and cause for taking the helm in hasty composure, in confidence, in manifest willingness to risk life and limb only because we are Peace and composure, we are all things through Him who strengthens us.

And the Spirit, let me just evoke a strange parallel, a place discovered, a prayerful and quiet turn away from loud obnoxious fancy, and towards hat on straight, This Day blanketed with the astonishing Today death march and side of persisting output. The output is called for and turned within unto a strange likeness and litany and belonging friendship. We are close to dying, yet not clasping after mighty poignancy, rather, belief and love unto a simple oriented Peace. In that Peace we are the stronger of the company, we are those who think of loving relationship and simpler dives. We are determined yet peaceful, to lunge in a murmured age-old sense of Peace unto War: we grow out of sadly unto joyfully Action. We are acting and right on the bucket, the sea market, the gesture, from us those no longer frightened nor nervous: for the dialog is Post-Peacetime: we align a human experience with Action and with Decision and with Cause.