Friday, August 2, 2013

     Have you ever thought about yes?  It's a wonderful word.  Yes speaks of goodness, grace, optimism, and hope.  Yes communicates actuality, that things happen, that things work, that things and people (and God) respond to our efforts and queries.  And yes tells us that we have a choice, every moment of every day, a choice to either agree with existence and all that it proffers and entails, or to reject it, to reject the potentiality implicit in every part of the creation.
     Ironically, if we suppose the world to have originated from things wholly chaotic, random, and impersonal, we really have no grounds to assume that there is anything like yes:  how can something that never existed suddenly begin, on its own, to do so?  How can it possibly say yes?
     To wit, if we assume the possibility of yes, we must also say that the world is such that an idea like yes can exist.  We must say, with the writer of Proverbs who, in the second chapter of his ruminations, reflects on the promises that attend believing in God, that our greatest calling and challenge is to simply say yes, say yes to the only presence that guarantees that there is a yes.  It's the most human thing to do.

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