Good morning…
“I picked up my Bible and turned the pages, becoming aware of how God had revealed this ageless process in its stories,” whispered yesterday’s post. “I read it not only as a chronicle of salvation history but as the story of an inner journey taking place in the landscape of one’s soul. Egypt, wilderness, and promised land are comparable to interior states of being: larva, cocoon, and butterfly. In both journeys – inward and outward – there’s first a movement of separation, then a holding environment where transformation happens, and finally an emergence into a new existence,” explains the wisdom of Sue Monk Kidd.
Once I saw this fractal of God’s truth, I began to see it everywhere. A fractal is a never-ending pattern, an infinitely complex pattern reoccurring “self-similarly” across different scales. A fractal is created by repeating a simple process over and over in an endless feedback loop.
A movement of separation, then a holding environment where transformation happens, and finally an emergence into a new existence. Might this ageless process be the fertile seed implanted in us by the infinite wisdom of God? Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.” So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:26-27, AMP).
So God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.
Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!
And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day (Genesis 1:27-31, NLT).
What a masterful fractal our LORD set in motion, seed-bearing plants to feed seed-bearing people who will care for everything given life. For God to expand through us, we simply repeat the pattern of this endless process: separate from all else, abide in transformative oneness with God, then emerge more whole, more like Christ, as each evening passes and each morning comes.
…Sue…
