Thursday, September 23, 2004
Everything is relevant
Why do seemingly significant but yet desperately random events occur?? And why do people always blame these sorts of events on my will? If you get up in the morning and you get your mix of coffee, sugar and cream JUST right, it’s never “thank the sweet lord above my coffee taste goooood today!” [southern baptists excluded]
It’s usually the girl who was pounded in a mini minor under a 20 car pile up or the cop that walked into a shimmering spray of bullets that survived that gets the me-part-of-a-miracle treatment.
But I think that’s just giving me less credit than I deserve. if god is omnipotent and all powerful, he’s in charge of this world all the time. Everything happens for a reason and with his knowledge. And in this weird world, everything that happens creates a butterfly effect and has meaning for everyone. It’s like a mad bottled experiment with pulleys and wheels that have a domino upshot on each other.
If you have a good cup of coffee, you’re in a good mood. You’re awake and polite to the drivers on your way to work. You arrive on time and complete more. The proposal is in better shape because of that extra input. Butterfly butterfly see where I’m flitting?
So I figure if you want to thank me for something, you damn well better be thanking me for everything. From that one last grain of sugar to the green toenail that nearly turned into fungalicular cancer.
people say life is full of surprises, but really it isn't. you just have to know where the dominos start and end. Everything is relevant.
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It’s usually the girl who was pounded in a mini minor under a 20 car pile up or the cop that walked into a shimmering spray of bullets that survived that gets the me-part-of-a-miracle treatment.
But I think that’s just giving me less credit than I deserve. if god is omnipotent and all powerful, he’s in charge of this world all the time. Everything happens for a reason and with his knowledge. And in this weird world, everything that happens creates a butterfly effect and has meaning for everyone. It’s like a mad bottled experiment with pulleys and wheels that have a domino upshot on each other.
If you have a good cup of coffee, you’re in a good mood. You’re awake and polite to the drivers on your way to work. You arrive on time and complete more. The proposal is in better shape because of that extra input. Butterfly butterfly see where I’m flitting?
So I figure if you want to thank me for something, you damn well better be thanking me for everything. From that one last grain of sugar to the green toenail that nearly turned into fungalicular cancer.
people say life is full of surprises, but really it isn't. you just have to know where the dominos start and end. Everything is relevant.
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