Those words from the Book of Beginnings (Genesis) articulate God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, et al (in this particular instance being spoken to Jacob, also known as Israel).
I can’t help but see a connection to Particle Theory, which Wikipedia describes as having to do with elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. It describes the radiative and scattering processes of those particles. Furthermore, these phenomena do not occur under normal circumstances. In other words, an extraordinary interruption is required.
It looks an awful lot like a prefiguring of the eucatastrosphere (eSphere) decribed a few posts ago: a soul-scape shaped in the ripples of divine interruption...
From the beginning, God has challenged people of faith to be his blessing - to everyone, everywhere, all the time... infusing their communities with beauty, strength, generosity, affirmation, health, balance, patience, hope...
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Thanks for this, Alex -- you've brought out a vital nuance of the eSphere: the reciprocity/recursion between individual and group.
The Trinity is the ultimate model of this dynamic, with each of the Three deferring into the unified identity of the One and individuating as utterly unique persons because of their identification within that very Unity.
Even though we've moved on from this com-versation, I wanted to underscore something Alex wrote:
"i'm not just a particle in a vacuum. what i do and say changes another and the community as a whole change me."
This is so important! I think it's one of the keys to Jesus' message (spoken and enacted).
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