Agenda Clash

Have you noticed that nature and pol­i­tics are sel­dom on the same page? They have dif­fer­ent agen­das. Social con­trols even­tu­ally cave into nature. The harder agen­cies try to con­trol peo­ple, the more out of con­trol they become. The war on drugs was lost decades ago. Advanced birth con­trol meth­ods par­al­leled the rise in teen preg­nancy. Peo­ple want pop­u­la­tion con­trol. Nature wants babies. Guess which agenda wins!

It is dif­fi­cult to admit that we do not con­trol the world. We are just pretty much rid­ing around on it. About the time we think we have an orig­i­nal cre­ation, we find a cat­a­logue of items just like ours. The same is true with thought. Our “orig­i­nal” ideas can be traced back, in prin­ci­ple, for thou­sands of years. Solomon was right, “There is noth­ing new under the sun.”

We humans are busy lit­tle crea­tures. For bet­ter or worse, our hands build and destroy. The more con­crete we pour and the more land­fills we fill, the more we think it all begins and ends with us alone. News flash: it is not about us. The planet was appar­ently here eons before we arrived. God, nature, the uni­verse — what­ever is greater has an agenda we seem to try our best to ignore. We sel­dom seek out the tools of dis­cern­ment to see what it might be. After all we are too busy “hav­ing” a life (like you could cap­ture any of this).

I know what we are doing on this planet, but what I can­not seem to fig­ure out is what we are sup­posed to be doing. Maybe it is all embed­ded in our DNA, and we really are not mak­ing any sig­nif­i­cant choices. Maybe we can’t. We occa­sion­ally dig up the remains of ear­lier civ­i­liza­tions. Did they ful­fill some sort of Divine Pur­pose or is this all about time and chance?

Real­ity has its agenda. I have my own. There is a haunt­ing feel­ing that I need to get to know the greater real­ity before it clashes with mine.