Cast into a sea of chaos, we paddle like mad to stay afloat. The human being is a limited creature, like all creatures. That is the thing about control kind of being in control isn’t really control. Once again, we are confronted with the truth that we live in a world we cannot, in principle, completely and absolutely control. Our sense of human autonomy is threatened when a little virus upends our plans, schemes and the stock market. These are primordial realities that every culture must confront. Yes, once and for all time.Ĭreation is the constant battle between chaos and order. How will all this affect the course our country will choose in the Fall? Who knows? Will anything about human beings really change? Has it ever. ![]() Politically, the pandemic has decided the Democrats’ candidate, perhaps the election in one or the other. The closing of Churches for fear of spreading the disease has threatened, apparently, the faith of some. A simple virus challenges our self-sufficiency. We are autonomous, we can make up our own rules, do our own thing as long as everything goes right. That social chaos was fed by the moral and existential disorder of American culture. We all experienced the social chaos that erupted in the aisles of local supermarkets when people feared whether the grocery supply chains could feed us city dwellers. How easily and unexpectedly the human order is over-turned by nature. The economy is volatile and endangered because this virus entered humanity’s complacency through an animal host, perhaps a bat or pangolin. As we live through the Coronavirus pandemic, the forces of chaos are once again nipping at our heels, trying to reclaim the order God brought into being. 1:1īefore God brought order into the world, chaos existed a wasteland, dark, a windswept abyss. In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. ![]() Starting with the Easter Vigil, the readings from the Old Testament call us back to remember humanity’s beginning, a narrative telling of our true situation in life the human condition. Lots of answers to those questions, but only one big picture answer.Įaster refocuses us yearly on the big picture. The big picture questions are who am I, where am I going, what do I need to do. The big picture is what is important for everyone, everywhere all the time. We can get all caught up in the personally pleasing or dissatisfying and lose the big picture. Sometimes it is hard to see the big picture. TOT- Theology of the Body- Dating & Marriage.
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