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A World of Creative Expression
This morning I walked out into my backyard to feed the feral cat and I could only think of Mr. Rogers saying! “What a beautiful day in the neighborhood, won’t you be mine, won’t you be my neighbor?” My backyard is filled with beautiful pink Texas Primroses. Bright red roses are mixed in here and there, with the eyes of the feral cat just looking up at me! Considering the very crazy weather we have had, with a mixture of tornados and high velocity wind storms, today couldn’t be more amazing. Light breeze, blue sky, morning sun twinkling between the leaves and 75 degrees. Wow, yes indeed it is a beautiful day in my neighborhood.
May can certainly be an intriguing month, as the beautiful cool days of spring move into the warmer days of summer. It also can be very intriguing, as you consider the meaning of the “Logos and the Word.” In the English versions of the Bible, “the word” often appears in the Gospel of John! Many theologians use it to mean Jesus, and they go off from there! While in the original Greek version of the Gospel of John, the word “Logos” appears in its place. The Greek word “Logos” means creative energy, meaning your words have creative energy! As the opening of the Gospel John shares, “In the beginning was the creative energy and the creative energy was Elohim! All things came into being through the creative energy, and not one thing came to be without the creative energy. What has come into being through the Creative Energy is life, and Life is the Creative Energy of all the People!”
Wow, think about that for a moment, the life in you is Creative Energy! How do you use this Creative Energy? In our Sunday Morning Class the past two weeks we discussed Mathew 13, where Jesus is asked how we can experience The Kingdom of Heaven. Then utilizing several parables about the Logos – the Creative Energy – Jesus shares how to experience the Kingdom of Heaven, which is a Field of Infinite Possibilities, where seeds and fish of every kind exist. Some seeds land on rocky soil and wilt; other seeds receive no moisture and parish, and others find fertile soil and moisture, and flourish. Like the Primroses in my back yard, they only need moisture and they grow like crazy.
Now what about those fish I was talking about! Jesus said, “Whenever you go out on the sea to fish, make sure you cast your nets on the side where the fish are, and your nets will be filled to overflowing. Then bring your nets to the shore and sort the fish out, keeping the ones you like and releasing those you don’t care for back into the eternal ethers.
Now what the heck does any of that have to do with the Kingdom of Heaven and the Creative Energy (the Logos?) Well, the Kingdom of Heaven is this Realm of Infinite Possibilities that we live move and have our being immersed within, which is the field of Creative Energy! The seeds, weeds and fish Jesus shared his metaphor about are Divine Ideas, creative thoughts that exist in the realm of our mind. Some seeds fall in the fertile soil of our mind, we give them attention and they grow like crazy. Others come into our mind, then are gone. In the parable of fish, we must bring what we have caught on the sea of infinite possibilities to the shore, and in our time of prayer sort them out.
Have you ever thought of seeds and fish as Divine Ideas? Well they are, just as your thoughts are! Especially when you direct them with the Creative Energy of your words. Yes, when you speak, you combine your thoughts (whatever you are thinking) with the creative energy of the universe, sending a vibration out into the ethers to create your reality. When you consider all the crazy things going on in the world, are you focused on the craziness, or do you pause within this moment now and seek to connect with the peace and love of the Infinite and Its Creative energy? You choose to which you are giving your creative energy!
Namaste, I see the Creative Energy in You, RevDocPatrick
