Morning March 13, 2008

To love God is to have direction in one's life. It is hard to feel that one has direction and that one is actively involved in some meaningful process. It is hard to feel that the hours spent at work and the hours spent commuting and the hours spent in the presence of cable TV are meaningful. It is hard to believe that everything is a part of an important progress through the hours of the Universe. We do not receive the blessing of meaning from our society. We receive the injunctions to obey and consume, but no one instills in us a sense of importance or value of self. We are supposed to derive it from people scampering on cable TV in iconographic settings, calculated to instill a worshipful devotion. All the icons of importance are empty. The icon of the go-getter, the movers and shakers, the multitude of creative geniuses in every art existent and yet to be, the halos of the dead who have been canonized on TV, the presidents who strut their time upon the decks of ships, the political geniuses who mask a deep hypocrisy... Emptyness is the hallmark of our time. The Love of God is the meaningful life. The Love of God is the Progress without end, bearing fruit throughout time and space, the salvation on Earth and anywhere beyond. ...and words, even these words, are just empty breath and smoke and vapor, unless, even while we speak, we realize everything word points to the beyond, not to the here and now. The Here and Now is passing. You cannot step into the same Here and Now twice. So as the words deflate, the meanings run away like stray dogs. Anchor your life's meaning to the Ever Changing, yet Unchangeable.