The universe is like an exquisite well-oiled machine whose gears mesh ever so perfectly, running effortlessly for eons of time, seemingly without the need for adjustment here and there.[i]
However, the closer we look, the more we see slight incongruences that suggest that there is more going on that our instrument laden eyes can see or even imagine.
Just enough incompleteness exists to create a nagging doubt, an inkling of an idea that there is something larger than the whole or perhaps smaller than our divisions that is missing.[ii]
We peer into the shifting spaces between the universal gears of space-time and are shocked to find a looking glass revealing ourselves peering back, echoing ancient time, with each gear reflecting facets of ourselves, like a chaotic trickling stream sometimes showing our faces and sometimes showing froth, always seemingly distorted, reflecting the ethereal, so many faceted, diamond-like and reoccurring.[iii]
Feeling the universe without, and letting go of thoughts of harm, of nameless fears, of perceived losses, and countless mangled pieces of past we want to avoid, we feel our way inside to the place of knowing, to the heart of Christ in our everyday being, and find there is no space that He does not fill with His Spirit. Looking out without prejudice, we look within with love for what was already there, the window to the universe, the eye of the soul, the smiling face of the Savior of all.[iv]
[i] Dolnick, Edward. The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2011. Print.
[ii] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/
[iii]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/quantum-weirdness.htm
[iv] https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng
D&C 88:6 He that ascended up on high, as also he descended below all things, in that he comprehended all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the light of truth;
7 Which truth shineth. This is the light of Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was made.
8 As also he is in the moon, and is the light of the moon, and the power thereof by which it was made;
9 As also the light of the stars, and the power thereof by which they were made;
10 And the earth also, and the power thereof, even the earth upon which you stand.
11 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings;
12 Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space—
13 The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.
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