There is a natural bias that assumes power requires a connection. A punch needs to physically connect. Wireless connections need sending and receiving units. Electricity travels by wires, radio by unseen waves, and machines work because of connections inside and out. In the context that everything powerful needs a connection, there is a mystery with things we do not understand.
As an example, it is hard to explain the power of an idea. Ideas can be defined as words that have the potential to be put into action. Powerful ideas impact people, communities, and the relationships between them. The mystery emerges because for ideas to have meaning, the words must come in a specific order and be combined with an understanding audience. There are no limits to how powerful an idea can be. As popular culture knows too well, powerful ideas once understood, stick. They cannot be forgotten.
Life reminds me that things can and do work, even if I do not understand them. Ideas can be powerful, regardless of my ability to comprehend. Passion belief combined with great ideas leads to potential opportunities beyond everyone’s imagination. If one adds a being in the mix, my starting point is that I cannot understand.
Writers before me have tried to describe the being behind compassion, community, and caring. David’s description is one of them. “With your finger you opened up springs and creeks, and dried up the wild floodwaters.” (Psalm 74.15) My imagination starts but falls far short of understanding.
Like many things in my life, my natural bias is not perfect. Powerful objects do not always need a physical connection, but they must touch. Compassionate truth becomes powerful when it touches your heart and mine. Mercy lives in the ways it touches lives in our community. Communities exist because occupants touch the other.
Today is an invitation and a calling to give life to ideas that touch the lives around us in ways that makes us more compassionate, caring, and loving. It is an opportunity to work with Divinity to make the world a better place.
