The Universe is chaos—fire and emptiness, infinitely expanding into nothingness, or reversing and crashing in with equal speed toward self-destruction—and yet, there is an order and Wonder in it all.
We can seek to explain the Universe’s reason as if knowledge of a mechanics gives meaning to the reason it is at all; but knowledge is not wisdom, and when we mistake the two as same, might we miss the greater point?
If we as Man are created in the image of God, and God is the Universal; are we not too composed in creation of the same chaos, emptiness, and flame? When drawn and distracted to strongly upon ourselves, looking to extremes in our immensities and smallness, do we not find the same chaos: fire and emptiness. Do we not find the fire of passions that light life’s experience? Do we not lose ourselves and make fire the focus of our worlds, we revolving around their energy as if Passions were our sun? Then, when alone, disillusioned in distance from fellowship, company, and sensed purpose: do we not find ourselves in a soul-emptiness that is existence without matter?
In emptiness, are we not overwhelmed and made small when we consider all that is and how little we are?
But when we step away, when we seek less knowledge, and more to experience whatever this life is without worrying on its why, does life not play with a shaping order that, removed from blindness in grand and small, begins to sense?
We discern design. We discern an order. Life is more than chaos. There appears a new-found beauty when we begin to live gratitude for all life reveals. When the new-found beauty shows, we live with new wonder that any of this exists at all.
Wisdom is not in the grand or small—a secret of chaos, fire, and emptiness infinitely beyond our scope.
Wisdom is a lived learning in experience, an intuition—an art in presence that gives honor and advances a spirit of grandeur for it all—and in the living of our wisdom, when viewed by the mind and eyes of another, maybe our presence inspires them to live the same: no longer blinded in seeking of knowledge in scales beyond our scope, but a decision to live in gratitude as life presents the we are given.
God is the moment. God is the present. God is the living now. We don’t need to understand. Wisdom is the grace to love, be, and share this moment that we are.