Being Human

There is much to being human for a human being. My astrol­ogy friends say that I am a “new soul” — that this is my first time to earth. I hope they are right. If this is my sec­ond or third time around and I am still mak­ing this many mis­takes, then obvi­ously I am a very slow learner.

I am more inclined to look at my being human in the tra­di­tional way of a phys­i­cal being learn­ing how to be spir­i­tual or a spir­i­tual being learn­ing how to be phys­i­cal. We are the half-angel/half-animal part of cre­ation. We seem to be the best and worst of both. Get­ting a dual nature to work together is not easy. The Apos­tle Paul talked about him­self as hav­ing this con­flict. We humans are both car­nal and spir­i­tual. Pit­ted against our­selves, we do some really crazy things sometimes.

Get­ting mind, body, and soul together takes a life­time and a lot of help. By the time we are in junior high school, we are pretty split. The jour­ney from inno­cence to tran­scen­dence is cer­tainly inter­est­ing — with a trail of laugh­ter and tears along the way. I am not sure what God is doing with us, but I hope it is work­ing. Cre­ation has taken a lot of time to set the stage for our arrival. I hope God is not disappointed.

I don’t know about you, but I am twenty-some-thousand days into this and am still a bit ambiva­lent about it. About all I can do is trust God and antic­i­pate the next life as I learn from this one. In all due respect for my astrol­ogy friends, I do not think I want to come back to this one. I would pre­fer to get the lessons the first time around and go to a greater level.

Appar­ently all I have to do is be human while being a human being.