Steeping in Spirit…
Psalms 1:1-3
1.
Blessed is the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2.
But his delight is in
the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3.
And he shall be like a
tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his
season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
We know that radio waves go through our bodies,
television broadcast and cellular signals, invisible energy that is all around
us and part of the workings of our world.
We have crafted instruments with which to detect them, those waves and
signals that are propelled by man and those that exist naturally. But, what of spirit? There is no man-made instrument, no
technology, no mathematic formula that can detect or prove the existence of the
spiritual realm. Although infinity is
worked into mathematics and given a written symbol, no science-only person
would equate personal beingness with infinity.
Reason tells us of the Uncaused Cause and the Unmoved Mover and that the
finite cannot be applied to the infinite.
Yet, it is faith that tells us that our souls, the animating principles
of our beingness, are not finite – they are of spirit.
Spirit is utterly whole and cannot be broken into
parts – and is, therefore, undetectable by anything finite. Spirit is infinite – everywhere and all
through. The Uncreated Creator created
matter and, eventually, inevitably, human beings, creating our individual,
finite bodies and choosing to animate them with Spirit – the Breath of
God. We are created by, and of, and for,
the Infinite One. This is the truth of
who we are, the fullness of our identities.
And the fulfillment of our destinies is in fully living in the infinite.
But, we don’t, do we? Rather than recognizing the finite as the
precious flower of the Christ seed, we use and abuse it for our own finite
ends. For, any self-indulgence, any
dominance of the temporal over the eternal, will come to a definitive end. Their end is death. With and in the soul of spirit is the gift of
intellect, imagination, and free will – if we direct our souls and their gifts
toward finite self-centeredness, then they will lose their intrinsic
recognition of the infinite and, ultimately, of the Infinite One who is the
Source and the All in All. When the
finite comes to its necessary end, what can the soul know but loss? What can the soul know but dying? And, because the soul is immortal, that loss,
that dying, will be eternal, with no end.
To keep the soul healthy is the most important
thing that a human being can do. A
healthy soul, through the innate, God-given faculty of faith, recognizes the
infinite through the finite and lives within Creation in order to delight in
the ways immortal. Creatures of flesh
and spirit are we, and the temporal and immortal dwell as one in the core of
our beings, in our hearts. Therein, we –
unique, beloved creatures of the Uncreated Creator – can come to recognize and
experience the fullness of reality.
Temporal and eternal, finite and infinite, mortal and immortal, come
together in us. There is no escape from
the temporal world – there is only redemption.
To understand the body as some thing from which to escape is to not
understand the body at all. We exist, we
are who we are, because the soul of spirit is given a body in which to live –
not merely in which to be contained, but to live. Living, body and soul as one, faith and
reason in accord, is the reason and the meaning of our lives – is life.
Recognizing, acknowledging, and embracing the
Infinite in the finite, the holy in the mundane, I walk in the ways of
righteousness, which is what truly is. Truth is my path and fullness is my journey,
as my destination is my destiny, willed before time and space. My eternal life, being eternal, has already
begun and I am living life – bathed
in the light of the Eternal One, submerged and steeping in the Immortal good, and
the fullness of the fruit I am created to bear is my sweetness, which shall
never perish, sheltered and sustained in the evergreen bower of my willing heart,
with all that I have and all that I am consecrated to Holy Truth. And all that I do shall prosper unto Infinity…
May I be so blessed…
© 2014
Christina Chase
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