Unseen Mystery

Life is full of mystery.  While some may live as if they have it all figured out, any such figuring is just a wishful illusion.  If there are a million certainties in life, there are ten million mysteries.  The problem for so many of us is that we live so immersed in the certainties that there is no room for the mysteries.  And, of course, the real truth is that we stare in the face each day more mysteries than we can count, but then, we are not really able to see these things which are very visible; yet, hidden.    

The Creation belongs to the Creator.  The creation reflects the handiwork of the Lord God.  He is architect, artist, the creative hands that have brought everything we see into being.  This includes not only the marvelous sunsets which are the objects of such awe, but also the weeds that invade our yard, the wasp that sting, the bees that make honey, and the grass which feeds livestock.  All the ordinary stuff is just as much an expression of the handiwork of God as that glowing radiant sunset.    

We are not trained to see.  We have been trained not to see, to be so busy with making a living that we have lost touch with the art of living.  Living is about the present.  It is about being in the present with an awareness of all that is around us.  The old saying about stopping to smell the roses has more truth in it than most of us are willing to acknowledge.  We do not smell the roses because we never see them.  Too busy is what we have become.  Being busy obscures the mystery that God has embedded in this unfolding creation.  It is a shame we are like a visitor to an art  museum who wants to see all the art work in only a minute.