The world around us is expanding and growing everyday, we just don't see it. To our human eyes, a city can shrink due to a vehicle that can bring you to one end of the city to the other within a few minutes, but what we do not factor in is the question: What if you walked from one end of the city to the other? In possiblility, it could take you an hour to all day.
I have been the type of person that feels as though he were looking through a set of virtual reality goggles. Sure, everything seems real with pictures and sound. I can see my hands and feet. However, there is a feeling that there is so much more waiting underneath that reality.
I belive that every human being has that feeling. Searching for the connection between what we see and what we truly feel is real is the lifetime adventure. It is our treasure map and the finish is a giant red X.
A thought occured to me today: What if we never find that X? We spend our entire lives searching and using people, items and pleasure to replace that connection wire between our human eyes and our spiritual eyes. We become desperate to find that missing X, but we waste time looking for something to change our lives. We are wasting our time with material and pleasurable moments to connect our spiritual eyes to our human ones.
As a Christian, I guess I assume that I do not need to search for that metaphoric X. Not because I claim that I have finally found that missing wire to connect my inner being with my flesh, but I am saying that I have come to rest with the idea that I will not find a "physical" X. Why waste my time using things or people around me to make me feel better, when all I know is that in the end that good feeling will fade away quickly. The very idea of that a material item or person can improve the missing piece within me is just a joke anymore.
Here is another way of looking at it; What kind of mind set are you in when you enter a hotel for vacation? The room is clean; the A/C feels nice; there is a pool just an elevator drop away; you can make a call and have food sent up to your room. Spend one hour in a hotel room and you will come to realize that you leave trash all around and care less to fold the blankets on the bed. To you, this is a temprary stay and there for you will treat it as such. You become blind to how you treat this little home for the weekend and act like a savaged human. Eventually, you will return home to comfort and peace. Your mind will settle and will become focused.
Our lives through this world is one big vacation. We treat the world with disrespect, or try our hardest to clean it up. We deal with the people on the upper floor and on the bottom floor. The pool we swim in have others in it. We are distracted by the items in the hotel and choose to gorge ourselves on junk food. It will not be until we go home, our true home in heaven, when we will decide to focus and loose our nonsense.
--Night
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