There is another thought that I had while re-reading the posts that I wanted to put down here as well.

When it came time for me to start developing my spirituality, one of my first ideas came from science. I don't know how many people have read the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, but at the end of the first book, the main character receives a vision and as it gradually grows in his minds eye of first the planet, then the galaxy, and finally the universe it all shrinks to a blade of grass. When I finally sat back and really meditated on that for myself, I suddenly became aware that in all likelihood, our universe just borders on something much more grand and life is connected to all of these. To take the metaphor for life even a step further, despite all of our progress in the last century in science, we are still no closer to understanding what "life" truly encompasses or how it started. With all of our technology, we still cannot recreate life in all of it's order and time. Throughout all of history, there have been many babies that have been created and they almost always come out perfect, blessed with the spark of life without anything other than procreation with what we do. Therefore, it has an order and spark of something that is indeed a miracle.

Also, one thing that truly inspires me, was that one of our most reknowned scientists, Albert Einstein, at the very end credited God with things he could never begin to understand. I feel that is a testament which asks all of us to remember that even in our lifetimes, something is indeed very powerful to keep the cycle of life continuously going in spite of our natural tendencies.

Maybe, as people grow to understand the underlying concept of life and science, they will start to credit it to a Creative Intelligence underlying all of creation. In addition to that, I don't feel that science and creation are mutually exclusive, they both stem from a desire to know how it all began and seeking our rightful place in the grand scheme of things.

Blessed Be,
Phoenix Rising