Perhaps due to the combination of a full moon, the weekend, and easter, I have had a lot of activity in my brain housing group. I remember a while back reading a post by another masonic blogger who stated that he never underestimated the power of serendipity. That was probably not the first time I had heard this general idea, but it was the first time I took note of it. Then last month I watched video on the Foreign Affairs website. The guest was the president of the Brookings Institute. I honestly wouldn't have pegged him for one to look to the unseen powers that be to resolve maters of global importance. However, when he was asked what was the biggest thing that he took away from his 8 years in working in the White House, he said that one should never underestimate or underappreciate the power of serendipity. At the time I was doing some work and not watching but I looked up and wondered what else was out there that I have ignored or suppressed.
With this in mind, I sometimes go with it. I'll think of a book in my library, grab it, and open it. If I'm being guided, I'm confident that the info will make itself known. So...I have 2 things from the past 2 days that reminded me of the 3rd Degree and the Lodge itself. The first was an interview I saw with Sylvestor Stallone regarding his final Rocky movie. The second was 4 passages from the Volume of the Sacred Law. I did think it odd to put the two together. However, he is the "Italian Stallion" and the passages were from Romans. But I digress...
Stallone's interview points out something that we all go through in life. He speaks of the adversities we face and the path we choose to take afterwards. He says in his Rambo Rocky way:
"Imagine just taking the thing you love the most and it dies.
It just rips your heart out.
So either you spiral down, or you start to re-build.
That's a journey that a lot of people have to take.
And so it is that we are confronted with death and given a choice. After Stallone left me hanging I found a few passages in Romans that helped to shed further light:
"And be not conformed to this world; but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
So we, being many, are one body..., and every one members of one another.
This was good diverse food for thought for myself. If anything, I have reminded myself of not only the path that needs to be travelled, but also the Brethren who are beside me should I waver in my duties as a Man, Father, and Brother.
2 comments:
Nicely put brother, Paul in many ways,it seems to me, explains the logic of the Messiahs Way. After all Jesus spoke in parables so that the freewill of those who didnt want to hear, was not abrogated. It must be easier as regards freewill, for the one who comes after, to explain the nuances because, many won't be troubled anyway as the expainer is once removed from the Source. By the way it is interesting your view of the map with the lighted areas, where there is light there is hope, where there is not, there is opportunity to shed more light.
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