We Are a Miracle
As the wonderful French philosopher and priest Teilhard de Chardin said, “We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
You are included in that. We all are. No matter how we see ourselves in this moment, the truth is we are at our center made of star stuff, our origins existing in and beyond the starlight.
One way to see what a massive miracle you are is to realize that human beings have lived on the planet just a few seconds in geologic time, yet each day you are presented anew with this precious world to experience, discover, and know. You could say you are earthbound stars experiencing this curious physical existence, figuring out how to move forward, how to identify who you are and what your work is, and how you can do it.
How Do You Know You Are a Miracle?
The answers are all around you. However long you live your life, it is a life held in unconditional love, something our five senses and worried emotions often hide from us. This never changes. If you stop for a moment, just one moment, and feel the presence of such love, you are forever changed.
So why is this not our common state? Why instead is there angst, despair, deep worry, anger, fear?
Life is a process in which you are meant to do the work most central to your inner self, where true knowing exists. Another way of saying this is that we are meant to leave it to God, and to extend ourselves in service to the ideal of that spiritual connection. We always know when we have done that, for we feel happy and fulfilled, no matter what that work may be.
In the Psalms it is written:
Be Still and Know I am God
Say that in that moment when you stop, if you decide to allow that moment to happen. Do this often during the day. Nothing will be the same.
Perhaps not all stars are yet evolved to know love. Life and death, joy and despair, health and illness, famine and plenty all come to mind as part of the duplicity of our earthbound existence. The disparity in the universal human capacity may just be ongoing creation manifesting We think and feel as creatures in a universe that presents a finite experience. How can we know the source of creation? Surely the source must be aware of all. There is a mystery here that great minds on earth have pondered back through the beginnings of what we call history. The bible mentions that we see through a glass. When face to face I hope to know the answer.
We may be coming from a different premise, but your reply is beautifully stated. Thank you.
Chardin’s quote speaks to the idea we are temporary, we humans, living just a part of our truest self, which is spiritual, and which lives wholly in Source, in God. We have been given this wondrous material existence to discover who we are, but it is not All There Is, for God encompasses everything, from galaxies to grains of sand. Your quote from 1 Corinthians is one of my favorites–especially the KJV wording. Vital. We are meant to peer through the veils and see clearly, bit by bit.
Your extensive background in Old English gives my rough quote profoundly deeper meaning.