In Presence

When something happens we can’t understand, when a child dies or an accident suddenly takes someone from us, we say “we cannot know God’s plan’. To make sense of it, we think there must be a plan, an explanation, just not one we can understand.

Plan is a very human idea. It’s a construct within sequential time where things have causes and occur one after another according to intention. Sequential time powerfully shapes the human dimension but there are other dimensions of time where non physical realities such as truth do not change yet nonetheless evolve.

I do not think sequential time is the way God sees His creation. From His point of view, perhaps everything is in motion and yet at rest, eternal and passing everything influencing everything else more or less, therefore making anything possible? His creation happens within Himself, in the ocean of light, being and love which is his nature, a surprise and a delight in its wholeness and what each part reveals of Himself to Himself.

We do not perceive that our thoughts also move among the stars, that our words reach the depths of His Heart, that we are connected to all and everything that is and was and shall ever be. We see in linear time, bounded by the limits of our attachments, held in place by personal significance. The mystery of existence must be so much greater than a plan.