Wonder

What place does wonder play on our lives as we journey through the void of daily life? Wonder has to do with the mystery of life, with our imagination, with our attitudes, with the things that we cannot see. What we don't see is often more important than what we can see. Wonder affects us in such a way that takes us out of the mundane moments of life and transports us to a world of delight where anything is possible. Wonder in our lives will bring more passion to our daily routines and relationships. How much awe, how much curiosity, how much of the unknown is pondered in our lives as we travel through our dreams and daily meditations. As I'm sitting here thinking about this idea of wonder a stream of sunlight is passing before my eyes and I'm seeing myriads of dust particles dancing through the lightbeam illuminated and shining as they turn and twist on their journey. Am I illuminated and dancing with wonder on my journey through life or am I hiding in the shadows invisible to the wonders around me?

invisibleness

Yesterday I was at my optomatrist getting my eyes checked out. As he was looking at the back of my eyeballs I asked him if he could take a picture of them and email them to me. He said he could but his camera was broken and he couldnt get a part for it. After that he put these drops in my eyes to make the pupils bigger to check them out. When I left his office he gave me sunglasses so the bright light wouldnt affect me on the outside. Not being used to sunglasses when I went outside I felt invisible. I think the reason I felt invisible was that the colours were all dim and really it was I who wasn't seeing as well, but in my mind the perception was changed so I felt everyone else couldn't see or here me, so off I walked home singing realizing I was invisible.
Sometimes in our world the visible and the invisible connect in really unique ways. What is visible isn't always what is there. There is always more invisible than there is the visible especially with people. Vision takes in a great amount of information but at the same time leaves out a great amount of information. As we're processing the information the visible is a lot easier to process than the invisible. And this is even more true of relationships, kind of like the freudian iceburg.
How am I invisible and how does that affect my relationships?

Slicing Twoworlds

'''Didn't we feel on fire as He conversed with us on the road, as He opened the Scriptures for us?''' What is it I hear on the road in Twoworlds? On the journey is my heart on fire or cold as ice? On the road who am I becoming?

Outside Silence

Inner silence is sometimes unable to hear the outside silence as the world is passing beneath my feet. Wonder is a commodity that is lacking when the noise carries me away on its wings and silence is unheard in the effort. How we react to the noise creates our space with turmoil or peace. What does the noise do to my inner space? How does the noise affect my inner being, my contentment, attitudes, interactions with my environment? What does the noise do to my hearing God speak?
Living in Twoworlds creates a tension when I am not allowing God's wisdom to permeate my life. When this doesn't happen I lose touch with Twoworlds and am unable to engage Twoworlds and am lost in the unworld of my own misery.

Outside Silence

slicing twoworlds

Living in Twoworlds has with it an exciting expanse of adventure. Merely walking through the back alley of time presents with it dangers of anticipation. Reality, even in the back alleys of time seems to stream in like rays of sunshine from breaks in the clouds. The busyness of random reality appears to strike at the center of deepest solitude. Also navigating these obtuse passages, wandering from the temporal to the eternal creates tensions that are not always easy to anticipate and deal with.
This morning reading in the Bible, the Message, one passage had me pondering on windows and freedom. "Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have! (Eugene Peterskon from the Message). From this we shape our space by the bent of the eyes of our heart. Windows with blinds aren't always conducive to seeing wonder. What do my blinds look like? How do I shut out the light of wonder and belief? As one living in Twoworlds following Jesus Christ, am I conformed in my thinking to closed windows and empty sparse hallways ending in a blank wall? Am I being shaped by the values and desires of my culture or by wonder and belief, the content of eternity?
How is freedom linked to Twoworlds? And also how is freedom related to relationship and knowledge?

Slicing Twoworlds

This morning in the solitude of shaping space, with dark clouds overhead and the threat of downpour, I pondered the state of Twoworlds. Within my solitude I could see wonder and mystery intersecting with purpose, love, and joy. Not exactly sure how far to pursue my line of thinking I went back to my wonders on my walk through Twoworlds. Rain had created an aura of a changing world, a world shrouded in glistening beauty that would only last for a short time. In our world of time change is inevitable, but necessary. In our world of personal space change is inevitable, but necessary. As I was at the point of finishing my walk through the back alley of time for this passing moment I started wondering about my slicing through twoworlds and what it meant. Living in the arena of twoworlds, the world of time and the world of eternity has always had its dangers. Adventure seems to be the norm living in Twoworlds.
Reality is spent looking through windows from different perspectives. My cat has different windows she likes to stare out. At the same time staring out there is a passion in her to engage the reality outside the window, whether it be bird, cat or other moving subject. In twoworlds I am looking out different windows and spend more time wondering about the outside than engaging the outside. In shaping my space I have created boundaries that discourage my slicing Twoworlds. Yet I am here to function in engaging reality, embracing change in Twoworlds. How am I engaging the world I see outside the windows I face. How am I shaping my space in such a way as a learner in time and eternity. I think it was st Jerome who said 'Let us learn upon earth those things which can prepare us for heaven.' This idea of being prepared for earth and prepared for heaven. This idea of slicing twoworlds has to do a lot with learning and change.