The metaphor of “the way of the Lord” and “a highway for our God” speaks of movement, journey, growth, not stopping and staying, not a static state. The way of the Lord is God’s movement and action among us, the ways of love, the acts of creation, the deeds of healing and restoration.
The ways of God are intentional and thoughtful with a view to the future toward which all is developing in God’s progress toward Good. God’s presence is dynamic and forward-looking toward our destiny: the new creation of unity as the Body of God.
We are Wild and Unsettled
God is present in our wildness, where we are yet without peace, where we think no one cares or considers a place is there worthy of attention, where no one wants to go and no home exists.
We are called to acknowledge that we are deserted and neglected, to apply ourselves in making a place for God’s presence, acknowledging God is where we do not think God is.
We are called to awaken to the realization that God is where we do not expect God and this causes us to honor all places, all creation, all people, to nurture the neglected places in the world and in the people.
We realize within ourselves the wilderness, the loneliness, the untended parts of us where we need nurturing for growth. We can prepare our hearts not just to allow, but to encourage new sprouts of life awakening to God’s loving presence.
God Does Not Come and Go
It is impossible that God would be absent from materiality and only come and go at certain mythical times and places. God is not some other entity like we relate to others, to things and to places. God is reality in whom we live and breathe and have our being.
It is the revelation of God that is growing. Revelation is resisted, covered up, denied, but finally confessed. Because God does not go away. It is we who forget, refuse to see, and give up. As we grow, the weight of reality becomes overwhelming and knowledge daunts us into hiding. We are too small in the vastness of spacetime, and we tire from competing for our finite hoard. We reject the idea of God and walk away. But God is not gone; we are still breathing God.
We Take a Long Time
When we consider the progression of all that we have become after 14 billion years, we feel we are intentionally here and that is some evidence of something. Of Love? The Will that wants us to be is glad we have awakened to the capacity of making symbols and sounds of meaning and are approaching the capacity of fellowship. This idea has been nurtured carefully no matter how long it will take. Many gifts of help have been provided so that we will accept hope and even choose to participate in our making.
So, it is our perception that tells of God coming down to earth and ascending away, showing up here and there at special times. In reality we are never alone. It is revelation that we experience, and we are learning to cope with our own coming and going of consciousness, how to unite all this overwhelming reality into a conscious, constant walk with God through this wilderness.
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