Passages of Wonder

Sometimes direction in our world is consumed with surviving the culture in which we exist. The culture almost becomes like the atmosphere which we breath and we can't get away from it. Also culture is so difficult to mold and shape from a single entity but it does happen. Each person can carve out their own special ecosystem with that system only impacting a very small sphere of culture. I guess though there can be some impact on attitudes in that small sphere of culture. The other variable which in some ways is dependent and independent of culture is the effect of our relationship with God, our spiritual impact on our world. I wonder how this spiritual relationship can breath life into our culture and into all the different links we have with this complex material/spiritual world. In each of our separate ecosystems our converstation with God will have a concrete and permanent effect on the world around us in such a way as to change us and those around us thus impacting the atmospere which we breath, the culture around us. As I write and think I see how our relationship with eternity can have a great impact on our culture as we are not restricted to a small inert space when we relate to God. The tentacles of our thought and prayer can reach around the world, can reach into the most diverse hollows and closets of time.
This idea of impacting our time is kind of like the emerging conversations from the cold of winter. As the conversations get longer there is a melting of the cold and the emergence of spring, of hope, of change. Sometimes we come into the conversation looking at life as closed and neat and through the passage of wonder find that the conversations of life are open and messy, with continuing adventure and mystery. This is the point at where God enters and impacts our conversation, when our journey is filled with the messiness of adventure, mystery and growth. The unknowns of the future then fill us with hope, realizing that God has planned for us much more than we can see or know at this present time. Grasping the future challenges us to change and grow.