Head to heart, from letter to spirit. The journey from one to the
other is the longest 18 inches in the world. When I began questioning
life’s orthodoxy; as we all do too some degree usually in our teens and twenties, I could never dream where the thread would lead. As we age, and
hopefully grow a little wiser, the fire to question unfortunately dims.
It would be hard to imagine a world full of middle aged teenagers where
the trains ran on time. Unfortunately age often brings complacency with it, it
overcomes us silently, like a late night fog rolling in, and we become
staid in our thinking and lives; the fire all but extinguished. Having become
invested in the status quo, it becomes easier to go along than to
address hard questions.
How do you live today? By letter or spirit?
The secular world operates on the letter. The spirit begs: Is it
“correct or right” to refuse help to someone because they don’t have or
fill out the right forms, though otherwise meeting all qualifications or
specifications? To “control” the amount of food grown in order to
maintain pricing structures while one child starves? To maintain the
myth of water shortages on a planet covered in water, because we choose
not to spend the money to remove the salt, as our brothers and sisters
die of thirst? The letter answers all these questions with rationale,
while the spirit weeps.
Who has also made us able
ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:
for letter kills, but the spirit gives life (2 Corinthians 3:6)
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