Friday, July 5, 2013
Passive Voice Existance
Though I hardly have the mind to appreciate it fully, today's technology is astounding. Most of the people I spend time with make a living inventing ways to detect specific aerosols and pollutants of any kind from miles away using just light. How these people are not moved to awe and gratitude to a Creator who is very clearly beyond anything we could ask or imagine is beyond me, and the more I consider that the less naive I feel for it. We are very excited that we can count photons. We overlook that photons were created. It's not hard to say we live for a God who already knows everything, but when we celebrate our "discoveries" (and we should!), perhaps we could do so with a feeling of revelation over our feeling of accomplishment. Whatever we know - photon counts included - is revealed, and only in very small part by expensive lasers and sharp minds (and those, too, to the glory of God). I am surrounded by concepts that prompt enthusiasm... honing that feels effortless today, maybe because I am not the one directing it.
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"We are very excited that we can count photons. We overlook that photons were created."
Amen, amen, and amen. Some of God's most beautiful attributes are truths that we learn not strictly from doctrine or the Scriptures or the tradition of the church, as essential as those things are---but instead from exegeting God's mind through the observation of God's world.
Some of the most worshipful moments I've had in recent years have been while on an airliner, charging down the runway just prior to and after takeoff, marveling at how God hid from us for so long that the air we breathe can be ridden upon, and wondering what it must have been like for him to sit on his hands, chuckling, bursting over (perhaps letting an involuntary laughter-snort out through the nose in spite of himself), waiting with explosive excitement and anticipation for us to finally discover flight---and thereby to learn afresh that even the most invisible things can be trusted to carry the entirety of our being.
As with photons, so with physics: the proper response is "hallelujah".
Thanks for this post, Rachel.
JH (E'burg, WA)
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