After a cool beginning, we have the kind of hot summer days which we all dread, but rarely remember when the cold rain falls interminably during January, or the snow piles up during a February snow storm.
Gwen Frostic wrote:
In the individual
as in the universe
order is a profound necessity . . . .
… Summer blends into fall
and the humming finale of the insects
rises from the tangled grasses
Methodically
season follows season
night follows day
and the moon and stars move
in their unwavering pattern
Order ensures our comfort level as we live our lives from season to season. Yet, order also comforts us as we live the changes in our lives. We need order to remind us of the constant change which is within order itself.
We missed the hot summer days when June was cool, and we would miss the colors of fall if winter came too early. Our lives offer us continuity as well as change. We expect it all. And if we didn’t have these ordered changes of life, we would wonder where they were, because we would recognize that our lives were in a furrow of sameness—often described as a “rut!”
What kind of order is there in God who exists forever? Does the Creative Force, which we often call God, need the order of continuity as well as change?
As manifested creations of the Cosmos we presume that in some way we are an analogy or a reflection of God. We are as important to an ordered and becoming God as the acorn is to the becoming tree, and God is as much a part of us as the tree is to the acorn.
David Burton in his sermon “God Reconsidered” challenged us to consider our relationship with God and to “rethink” what God is for us. As each of us becomes the person we want to be, living our lives to the fullest of our creative gifts, let us consider what God means to us in our order and our change.