I think that\u2019s the call of a Cardinal-bird. A walk on a late Spring morning, with Allee, who is recovering from an appendectomy. (It was done with one of those little \u2018scopes that go in through the belly button.) Wow. In the olden days she would have had to stay in the hospital a couple of days, maybe even a week. She went home with me late that morning!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s two days later. This morning\u2019s insight is that the birds are expressing God as best they can, and I am myth-making about God as best I can. Only I know that it\u2019s myth-making, and I paused and thought about William James about a century ago writing \u201cThe Will to Believe.\u201d I feel that now, because although I\u2019m in part inclined to be a skeptic, my heart just won\u2019t buy it. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m just giving into sentimentality or ego-attachment; it\u2019s more that I\u2019m intuitively opening to the all-ness, which includes not only stuff, but mind. Bird-song is aimed at attracting other birds and\/or announcing territory, and it suggests a great invisible network of becoming-ness. The idea that these all are just chance events randomly assembled is an offensive affront to my deep intuition. I don\u2019t feel obligated in the least to \u201cbelieve,\u201d but there\u2019s an old hymn with the phrase, \u201cI am persuaded.\u201d<\/p>\n
So I\u2019ve decided to let go of my skepticism and relax back into an encompassing myth, one that works for me, that doesn\u2019t overly assault my rational faculties. The cosmos is God expanding in this three-dimensional realm with one-dimension of forward-moving time. Okay, I\u2019ll go with that for now. Thanks lil\u2019 birds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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