218 Discernment
218_Discernment
There is an attitude of mind, a shrewd conceptualism; more so to beguile others by our ultra-cool, that only comes from hard labour. We are discerning when we comprehend what is obscure. And there are many obscurities about our generation – fitting in, gender, sexuality, and making.
“It appears that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing upon a refined sensibility, must produce various and complex results. The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate, if necessary, language into his meaning.”[i]
We find ourselves entangled in the entrainment of enchantment. We ought to feel grounded at some point and accomplished in our day-to-day work. We can so easily blame and accuse those we have been with through traumatic events, and we must forgive ourselves and them, but not continue the fight. By prayer we search desperately for God’s voice, and sometimes can only reach him silently. But by discernment God will guide us, through his complexity of creation, there will be an evolving creative method for us all, so let us get stuck into our cultural paradigms.
But who really is satanical in this World with the best of intentions? Someone crying out for help? Someone living in fear? Someone overstating their Power?
The birth-pains of the re-birth of this World will be hard, and there are no easy solutions. Why we need to map out our lives, and plan with great dexterity and mastery. For Jesus said: “Many will be hated . . the end will come. . . . an abomination of desolation . . .How dreadful in those days it will be for nursing babies and pregnant mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in the winter or on the Sabbath. . . . They will see The Son of Man coming . . Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. . . ‘”the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;’” “[ii]
“The ultimate power to change the world does not reside in technologies. It relies on reverence, respect and compassion-for ourselves, for all people and for all life. This is regeneration.”[iii]
The Climate Action prerogative is a reality, and God’s word gives us clarity that this generation will only be saved, by an education on the bio-system, including the body itself; to be discerning is to give respect to yourself and your faith in the goals you perceive doable, to help reverse the climate change and make waves in the water of doubt. We can save the climate in one generation, and then maybe we have an eternity bound? For I live in my mind in an eternal physical world and until that is viable in an economically rooted tradition of craft, then we can say it is done.
“POLO: Everything I see and do assumes meaning in a mental space where the same calm reigns as here, the same penumbra, the same silence streaked by the rustling of leaves. At the moment when I concentrate and reflect, I find myself again, always in this garden, at this hour of the evening, in your august presence, though I continue . . . “[iv]
Poetry and its dislocation of revery, dreaming and mind escapes, will help us all to make the earthen pot of water to hold us in hope for the future.
“The answer to the four questions God has promised . . .
Through his spirit he will remake creation . . .
A fresh kind of relationship with our neighbours . . .
Creatures that will live in both dimensions of his created order . . .
Justice flooded creation. . . “[v]
God bless you.
Love, AB, x.
Thanks be to God.
[i] Butler, Christopher, Modernism, A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2010, p.1.
[ii] Anonymous, The Holy Bible, Today’s New International Version, Hodder, UK, 2007, p.939-940.
[iii] Hawken, Paul, Re generation, Ending the climate crisis in one generation, Penguin Random House UK, 2021, p.9.
[iv] Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities, Vintage, London, UK, 1997, p.93.
[v] Wright, Tom, Simply Christian, SPCK, London, UK, 2006, p.115.
