Sabbath Time #87 - A simple drawing...

Welcome.

This is primarily a place of rest and renewal. Sabbath is a reminder of the need for balance between rest, work, and play.  A rest stop along the busy highways and byways of our lives.

Today I have a question of sorts. I've been trying to figure out where I'm at and how to address some things - and I feel utterly inadequate to the task, but here's an attempt.

Describe what you see.

The drawing - taken from this fascinating site - is pretty simple... 

unless you try to make sense of it.

   

Join me after the percieved "fold" or real "jump" :-)

Is this object possible - no, and yes.  We can concieve of it, we can draw it in 2D, but we really can't build it in 3D.

So - is it "real" or "imaginary" - supernatural? 

what is truth?

"the" truth?

What is real?  Where are the limits?

It's the day before Easter in my faith tradition. I believe the basic story, although as I reflect, it's probably more honest to say that I have a version of the story (or two) that I would say I believe - but it's kind of like the drawing.  What does it mean to believe God became flesh, that that man was then crucified, and yet lives?  Where are the lines? 

If a given person doesn't percieve, describe, believe and react to the story (or the above drawing) the same way I do, are they damned?  Am I just delusional?

No.... I don't think so.  See, it's not that simple.

A lot of the time I think I'm akin to one of the nuts in the drawing above - turning myself inside out, struggling to make sense of the incomprehensible, to do tasks I'm not fully capable of, interacting with a world that is just as convoluted.

And that's okay.

For many years I confronted these questions and I tried to just avoid them - ignore the drawing, the stories, the questions and just live.  I felt to chose a path was to deny others I saw as valid. 

Finally I came to see that not chosing was denying all. So - after some encounters with various traditions, a drum here, a story there, I started walking...

And that has made all the difference.