Journey of the Universe

Here I am, on the 16L bus, heading to work down Colfax Avenue - and I am ecstatic. At this moment, it feels like watching Bob Ross paint on PBS. For most of the episode, you enjoy the colors and forms taking shape, you enjoy the artistry and the unfolding image, but you are not entirely sure what you are looking at. Then suddenly, with a determined yet subtle stroke of his painting knife, it emerges, there before you. 

In my readings and thoughts and constructions and experiences, a spiritual-ecological-theological evolution has been accelerating over the last year or two, a process with roots deep in my entire journey. But today, the morning sun enlightens a new form, and my experience of this time and place looks and feels anew. Cosmos, becoming Cosmogenesis. Matter versus Spirit, becoming co-creative expressions of the same universal process. The world is beautiful. This morning is exciting. 

I have my contingent vocation, my calling in a smaller sense, the thoughts and activity of my life directed toward temporal and specific objectives that I value, the work I do to earn a living to support what I value and want to do in my life, in my time. But there too is a universal vocation, something greater, something on a larger scale, something more abstract and difficult to fully comprehend, something independent from any day to day concerns, separate from any individual time frame. As the universe emerges through expansion and attraction - the spiritual and the physical dancing in co-emergence - as its being and essence unfolds through the interplay and interaction and dialectic and evolution of its contingent realities and divine energies, so too does our universal vocation breathe and exhale in the smallest locality of our individual being in this individual moment, inextricably interconnected to the potential of the Whole that extends long before us, and will continue long after us. This is the voice, the calling, that is amplified today, the Cosmogenesis that is especially revealed by where the unfolding universe, Creation, has brought me to in this moment, this morning...here on the 16L.

Everything glows. And now, for the  moment at least, I see it. Where the Whole Earth, the Emerging Universe, the Sacred Spirit carries me from here, I do not know, but wherever I go, there I will be. And I get the sense that it is my universal vocation, my Work, to see the Story, anew.