Energy

The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy can be absorbed and released, but it cannot be created or destroyed. It simply assumes a different form.

This reminds me of God. We didn't make Him, we cannot destroy Him. We can absorb Him and release Him to others, we can accept Him or reject Him, but He is still there. I think God's energy is in all of us, just in different forms. Like my good friend C.S. Lewis once said, "God has impressed some sort of likeness to Himself, I suppose, in all that He has made."

A Grief Observed

I was reading C.S. Lewis the other day.

" 'She is in God's hand.' That gains new energy when I think of her as a sword. Perhaps the earthly life I shared with her was only part of the tempering. Now perhaps He grasps the hilt; weighs the new weapon; makes lightning with it in the air. 'a right Jerusalem blade.' "

May we temper each other.

we are not just dust.

"the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." Genesis 2:7

The fact that God made us from dust is so humbling! How much can dust be worth? How much can it do? But then you go back to read that God breathed into the dust to bring us life. We are part of the Creator. At the beginning we were nothing but then... something beautiful happened.

But then I think that people today can't be all that bad if they have a breath of God in them. Maybe the dust takes some people over...