Good Friday Meditation

Excerpt from "AskMom's," No Policies Have Been Changed

Recently, questions about a string of small operational discrepancies brought this response from the boss: "no policies have been changed."

Whoa. Exactly what I thought a few days later as a friend and I meandered our way up the spectacular Columbia River Gorge. The three driving processes of life on earth, geologic churning, rain, and photosynthesis, were abundantly on display. The Pacific Coast is being pushed up from the earth's crust, creating more land. For millions of years, the sun has pulled water out of the Pacific Ocean, driven it on the western winds to these "new" hills, and dumped it down to run back where it came from.

In the process the water erodes the rock, making dirt which provides the chance for plants to grow. And grow they do, a lush and restful carpet of life in the spring mists. This interlocking system carries on relentlessly. Beautiful and cruel, powerful, elegant in its simplicity, the life of the earth goes on.�

And that, of course, is God's whole point. The details change but the policies never do. The sun will rise and set, and in between it will evaporate water, create winds, and power the growth of plants, which feed and sustain the animals, including us....

But people do have the power to reason and to choose. How sad that we so often use this power to fight among ourselves and against the very wisdom that created us. Perhaps some day we'll learn to be happy inside the policies that never change. We'll give praise to the One who made us, show respect for our earthly home, deliver care and loyalty to our tribe, seek to magnify the good and resist the evil in ourselves....

Read the manual, because no policies have been changed.

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