HOPELESS OPPORTUNITY
We, these nominally freewill individual elements
of consciousness, find ourselves in this world of entropy, inevitable death,
need, hunger, suffering, and evil. We exist in more or less solitary
confinement, our experience of life singular and isolated, with no way to share
the essence of what it deeply feels like to be you and me.
This might initially seem discouraging, and then
depressing, and then abjectly hopeless.
But only because we miss the point. Perceived from a different perspective, a distinct Light becomes evident in the admitted darkness.
We are placed in a form of existence with
boundless opportunity to do good and practice Love. Yet our individual
corporeal existence is all about us, all about our birth, all about our growth,
all about our eternal destiny.
We are given ample, indeed boundless,
opportunity to do good, to help, to alleviate suffering, to rescue, to heal, to
comfort. Anywhere we turn there is need, which is to say, opportunity.
We do not have to save the world. We
cannot save the world. But we can save someone or something, and in the
process accept the gift of our own salvation.
There need be little torment about exactly what
to do. In this world of suffering, the opportunities are boundless.
Raise your children, do a good job, or rescue animals, or shelter the homeless,
or serve on church committees, or be politically informed and active. But
for God's sake, for your sake, do something. There is no single right
path. There is no way for you to save the world. But there are
endless ways to save something and someone.
That is the nature and Purpose of this world of
entropy, to provide opportunity, to provide the Choice. At its core
foundational structure, below the infinite mathematical sequences that can only
tease at a pseudo-determinism, resides entropy, the statistically not quite
impossible, and hence inevitable, evolution of conscious life, and the
inexorable death of that life. The resulting overall perceived image is a
grisly panoply of carnivorous cruelty. Yet at the pixilated level of the individual
elements of isolated consciousness, there we see the Purpose, the beautiful
Purpose, the redeeming Purpose, in the opportunity to choose Love and
beauty in whichever direction they turn.
It is a Universe and Creation of
suffering. It is a Universe and Creator suffering…...all for us, for each
of us…..we children being born into what seems darkness because our eyes are
still closed, we children of a Light awaiting our Choice to let it shine
through us.
Copyright 2026 Don Ray.
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