H,
So what
do we do with this passion we think must be ingrained in our souls by God? We cannot
stop the fire that calls us to create, to participate, to become one with other
things and make that the reason for why we breathe oxygen. The human soul
craves, it wants, it is constantly looking into every hole to find purpose and,
thereafter, fulfilment. Let us not deny this. Two thousand years of bowing and
kneeling and listening to sermons has not changed this craving. Let us face it
so we do not create duality. Duality has no place in the Christian life. Christ
came to make us whole. Whole human beings.
There
is place for the passion hidden in our gifts and yearnings. There is nothing
creative or ambitious or shaped like a craving or made up in our hearts as
vital that needs to be killed. Self, selfishness, the nest of lies that make us
less human and the need to compete are impulses that must die. Not the
creativity inherent in art or the sense of wonder in science or the sense of
wonder in art and the creativity in science. Nor the need to build things and
share value that are the best traits in business, governance, technology and
many other fields that make the world a palliative sense of a place before the
Kingdom comes. There is a place for the full extent of the human heart on this
present plane. Yet, we must note that it is just a place and not the whole picture.
We are
made to be more than what we things we do. The mark we leave, and this is
really a silly concept in people hoping for a new heaven and a new earth and
who believe-know that ill justice and lack on any patch of earth must mean
there is a serious deviation from plot that needs to be addressed, for lack of
a better phrase, must be on lives and not artifacts and it must be from who we
are and not merely what we do or did. The whole picture of us is not only in
what we long to do but must be subservient to the kind of person we long to be.