It's been almost six months since my last post. My life gets so busy that I have such little time available to be able to sit down and write. Over the past several months, I'd considered deleting this blog since I wasn't posting anymore. I just hadn't had time to get around to doing so! Then, last Wednesday I received a beautiful comment from someone who had stumbled onto this blog. I'd set things up so comments would be emailed to me. I haven't been to this site since the last time I posted. But I'm here now because of five little words of encouragment..."I hope you'll keep writing!"
:-)
About Me
- Sr. Lilli Ana
- (I'll upload a new pic soon.) The habit sort of gives it away, doesn't it? Well, maybe the outside picture but not the inside, and definitely not the whole. Reading my writings I hope you'll learn more about the Deep-Time picture of what makes up "me", for my history began 13.7 billion years ago; and, there is only One "I" out of which we all bring ourselves forth into the intricate web of life we find ourselves in today.
6 comments:
There are still some of us who visit your blog every day hoping to see a new title pop up. So please do keep writing. :)
I'm one of those people who checked your blog daily looking for a new posting. I'm glad you're back...
Welcome back! I've been checking every couple weeks or so. Keep writing, please. I've missed you.
And I've checked about once a week or so. So glad to see you back. I'll be looking forward to more posts from you.
Yay! You're back! Hugs!
Sister, I was intrigued by your statement that "... my history began 13.7 billion years ago; and, there is only One "I" out of which we all bring ourselves forth into the intricate web of life we find ourselves in today." It resonates pleasantly with my own little statement of personal belief on my blog, http://weirdcircle.blogspot.com -- just wanted to share.
Thanks for an interesting read!
What I Believe
You need to know a secret:
The life force inside each of us is a flame that started burning on Earth over four billion years ago, and has never gone out. Inside each of us is a living thing that has existed on this planet for nearly a third of the entire 13.7 billion year history of the universe; a being that has lived in this place, patiently, with a wisdom deeper than any of us individually could ever know, for an eternity greater than any of us can comprehend.
Some might confuse this with "God." This is a mistake. Whatever this vast, practically eternal life force is, it is a temporally and physically finite being that is bound (just as as we, as individual manifestations of it are) to the Earth; afloat on a tiny speck in a vast universe, which itself is possibly but one of an infinite number of "universes" comprising all of existence.
Perhaps this life force on Earth is a manifestation of a greater life, a God, that permeates the whole of existence in something like the way this life force permeates each of us. I don't know. I can see and feel the life around me on Earth, with which I am intertwined. I sense the flame passed on to me from my parents as from one candle to the next, and I believe it came to me that way, one ancestor, one organism at a time, from the very beginning. But I cannot see or feel how the life of Earth is connected to the life of other planets across interstellar and intergalactic space. Perhaps, as many people believe, an invisible, "supernatural spirit" spans the vastness of space, connecting us to far flung life beyond our own. But even if there is such a thing, is that, then, "God"? The "creator" and "sustainer," as many people say, of all that exists? Or just another creature, another facet of this miracle of existence?
If I ever come believe in God, I want it to be the real God, not just someone's idea of God — least of all my own feeble notions, whatever they may be! Thus I forgo the easy security of "faith" in the hope of someday comprehending a truth that transcends any doctrine.
And you need to know another secret:
You are asleep, and you need to awaken before it's too late.
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