The Unfolding Truth

 "You won't give up the search, for the ghost in the halls".

Building A Mystery - Sarah Maclachlan.

"If you seek it like a rare and precious thing, and search for its hidden treasures, then understanding will establish you in the rightness of wisdom". Proverbs 2: 4&5.

Recently, Scientific American published a very important article into the current nature of where our understanding has reached regarding back holes, quantum dynamics and the nature of perception and the universe as a whole. What makes this particular item so significant is that what is becoming essentially evident about the nature of material existence very clearly derives and builds upon the basis that the realm we inhabit had a very real and definable beginning. The universe is not self- perpetuating or eternal - physical material was given form and purpose from outside of what now exists, and the structure and intentionality of this work clearly alludes to the work and foresight of a master Creator.

Which brings me, once again, to a brilliant little piece by Dr Jordan Peterson. In a talk which touches on the profound scope of where Physics has taken us (photons from stars billions of light years away, existing to come to our gaze!), he looks at how the early part of the book of Genesis unpacks the vital connection between something's existence and definition (in this case, Adam naming the animals). What is being explored here is that it isn't merely enough for something to exist - to truly have 'form', it has to be something that is understood in respect to its 'place' and purpose in relation to the rest of creation. What is also related to this is the way in which "logos" (Word) is the very means whereby this process takes place - as God 'speaks' light into existence, so Adam brings about the essential definition of the creatures he shares the earth with by 'naming' (perceiving) them. This will ultimately occur in the moment he comprehends Eve - seeing her and himself as 'one flesh' (something which Paul will take up when he seeks to expound on the nature of Christ and the Church).

What these astonishing discoveries and considerations address is the manner in which the genuine wealth of truth - the weave of vital theology - still weaves and knits its way through the very fabric of our existence, from the most fundamental to the most radiant level of what we know and what is unfolding. Wisdom recognises the inherent rightness and vitality of this - how it grants stability to our lives and strength to our bones, because it reveals how deeply we have been 'held' in the magnificence and consideration of one so much higher and mightier than ourselves.

Certainly worth a few considered moments of our time today....