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?
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