ABOVE & BEYOND

When we  lose our sense of story and myth, we lose the ability to see things bigger and beyond ourselves.  We can only see what is right in front of us as it is.  It is like God, in the beginning, hovering over the earth and seeing the dark, formless, void and saying, “Well, that’s the way it is, that’s what’s real, so that’s that.”  Fortunately God is creative and saw beyond the dark, formless void and said, “Let there be light”, and began creating a heaven and earth full of plants and creatures and breathed life into the world.  He produced the light, created forms of every shape and size, including human beings from dust, and then animated them all with his breath, his life energy.

God is creative and he made human beings in his image, creative beings filled with his Spirit and creative energy.  To live stuck in the belief that only what is seen right in front of us is real, is to deny the very energy we were created by.  To deny God leaves us only a dark, formless void as our reality.

We need our stories and myths, not as objects of worship, but to activate that creative energy that the One who created us breathed within us.  We need to see beyond what we think is real to what is bigger, mightier, and True; and what is True is God, the Alpha and Omega; the beginning and the end.

When I sit and look up at the sky and out over the ocean, my spirit soars in the expansiveness of them both.  They teach me that there is a beyondness to this life.  There are things I can’t see or even imagine out there, all around me, and also here, imprinted in my soul.  The above and beyond may be presently beyond my grasp, but I am always in touch with it and will forever keep reaching for it.

Stories and myths help keep my God given creative energy soft and subtle.  The vision of eternity that God put in my heart, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end that is God himself, gives me parameters and keeps me rooted and grounded so that I can grow straight and tall, full and fruitful.

“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.”