In what moments of frustration of victory do you live out your calling to this life and world?
Every moment, every interaction is the playing out of a much grander story. One that finds its origins in the dreams of your ancestors millennia before you.
Can you hear them? We are but the mere ripples in the subconscious of our forebears. The urges and undulations and serendipity and circumstances of our parents, grandparents, all the way back to mitochondrial Eve and Adam.
We are the ephemeral rippling up of earth’s ancient mineral bones, given temporary form through this miraculous community of biomes, oceans of fluids, and network of energy that carries our conscious and unconscious, our souls, dreams and desires, puppeteered by the fulfilled and unfulfilled hopes stored in our DNA…
Can you hear them? The whispers of regret and victory that drive every notion, gift and capacity we have or wish to attain? Even the very capacities of our bodies are the result of what our ancestors needed and were able to attain — those of them who survived.
And what does that say for our lives? Perhaps that our lives are not ours alone, but that regardless of even friends or foes, we are already part of a vast network that stretches out eons ahead of and behind us.
We are not singular actors. Our very existence suggests that we are the result of collective action and reaction, co-finding our way through the mystery of life, with the drive to keep living.
Why? Living for what? What are you here for? What grand play of existence are you a part of and what is your role?
Here’s a hint. You have more than one. And you have had more than one. Everyone one of us has been and has within us and our genes, the history of a king and a begger. A prince and a thief. Who do you get to be in this lifetime? And how would the past version of you react to how you play your role?
How would the thief in you react to your judgement? How would the king in you react to your peasant? How would the raped react to your patriarch? How would the colonized in you react to your crusader? How would the served react to your philanthropist?
We live out the histories in our bones in every moment of every day in every interaction whether we know it or not. Our very existence is part of a grand play of the cosmos.
What part did you come here to play?
