Neural Synapse. An Electron Microscope Photograph by Thomas Deerinck |
I got derailed from my series on parables... I may return to it at a mythical point in the future when I have time, but over the past couple of weeks I've been reading a few books and articles that touch on the physical/neurological nature of thought, perception and existence (as well as watching the gloriously dated 1960's film version of "The Fantastic Voyage"). All that "sparked" this poem/prayer... "God of the Gaps" is the disparaging term used both by atheists who see the idea of a deity as a simplistic explanation for physical phenomena that science has not yet explained, and by some conservative Christians who use it to describe the God they don't believe in, suggesting that the revelation of God as they interpret it in scripture, trumps all scientific "theories." As a Christian with a scientific bent and a love of words I thought it was time to "redeem" this insult... Pretentious!? Moi?
Guide me as I navigate
The infinitesimally small oceans
That exist inside my head
Within which the whole universe resides;
All thought, and feeling, and reality.
Reach out like Michaelangelo’s creation
To help your creation
To make the connections
Necessary for life
In all its fullness.
Word become flesh
Word become flesh
Who spoke the world into existence
Before becoming part of it,
Help me to resist
The temptation to retreat
From the meatiness of mortal life.
May I not reverse the trajectory
Of your story and seek to avoid
The complexity of corporeal existence,
Withdrawing from the world
To a warm womb of words.
Insubstantial Spirit
Insubstantial Spirit
Breath of life, filling my lungs
And every living cell within me.
Promised paraclete
who stands beside me unseen,
To strengthen me
When physical friends have deserted me;
May you infuse me with your fire
And hover over the chaos
Of my life and thought
Shaping my comprehension of the kosmos.
Selah
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