Late at night on a lake

It was late at night and I was staying in a cottage on a lake in the Annapolis valley. Loons in the tranquility, swimming in the water,  sounded with their eerie, beautiful,  tremolo calls, diving and resurfacing on the calm waters surface.

 

An over hanging expanse of distant stars, with their majestic dignity, with the probability of existent worlds around them were visible above where I fixed my eyes. I looked outside and upward through the cottage window where I was located there by a pristine lake between the surrounding forest.

 

I had been drinking Crown Royal whisky earlier that evening and now I lay awake. In the absence of us being here, I thought thinking there, without this order that we know, with us not being here on the earth,  what else might there be beyond us and without us here. If we are to assume there to be still remaining a force at work responsible for other places, like our Earth, yet in the absence of our Earth existing here, if Earth somehow disappeared, what might that mean about reality and what really lays beyond us.

 

What If in other words we assume a force exists as a builder and master of creativity not singularly focused on Earth and not all about us in this place. If this kind of creative force is really actual, which it might be, and has a highly complex inventive nature far beyond the scope of what we’ve seen brilliantly revealed already in our world what else could there be. What if this power is inventive and delights in its impressive work then would our existence as earthlings matter at all if we were removed entirely from the sky.

 

I wondered laying there what If this dark corner of the Milky Way had no Earth, no upright man, with us not here creating symphonies, building cities, writing encyclopedias, creating novels with different realities, there being no ministers delivering sermons on the perceived nature of a higher power, what overarching experiences would a fuller picture, without us in it, be like.

 

This is a curios question for me because we tend to see ourselves as the center of all and everything with us being all there is that is existent or at least relevant. And we don’t have any actual certainty to dismiss the idea that this larger creative order isn’t likely either. What if our reality here isn’t completely the end all picture of relevance but really might everywhere else have great importance also to bare on the puzzle of this seismic mystery.

 

Can we really say existing here in this unknown existence that all this we’re a part of hasn’t a designer responsible for the order of nature in the universe. Can we trust with certainty that something else besides randomness isn’t really responsible for all that we know.

 

The common assumption in education is from specifically scientific knowledge, and science is truly a great approach to approaching the unknown with reason, but does scientific calculation and discovery alone account for the only valuable or believable formula for approaching all of reality. The atheistic agenda strategically forced on children's minds in schools isn’t adequately knowledgeable enough to tame the universe and its unknowns. The model is premature because the actual truth of the picture, the full picture of our lives, who and where we are, remains open ended. As we are here now on this planet there is far too much mystery surrounding us. That unknown, whatever it is that lays out there, that frontier has not been tamed or settled by us, not even close. Space just sits there vacant and vacuous while haunting us with its ghosts and possible aliens and who knows maybe God perhaps in those unending unknowns.

 

Our life could really exist here surrounded by an infinite realm of aberrations. It could mean a great departure of what is normal, real, or expected. Perhaps we are living among spiritual chaos all around us. Life could alternatively be oversaw by an evil genius watching diabolically our present struggles and progress with impunity. There could be a God of intense unfailing love and mercy above our lives watching us and ready to reward us in grand inestimable ways. There could be instead a Being who's only fascination with us is in building creatively by constructing types of inhabitable worlds with all kinds of ingenious and randomly created and unleashed terrors. This Being simply watches us face these challenges, us this Beings creation, as we wrestle through the maze often hopelessly.

 

I believe in a merciful God overarching our lives. This is the picture of things I trust in but what are we a part of even if what I think is the truth really is the truth. This that we know now is just the tip of the iceberg and not the general or complete picture of everything there is at all.  The generalization of our picture, the picture being known somehow infinitely as a picture, really would need to extend into infinite realms not ever seen by beings like us in order to really know enough about the unknown to know what is really real. Those reaches are so incalculably far removed from us though to know.

 

We can’t say that the unknown is not really out there with beings of an infinite variety. There are possibly unending and unique schemes of logic and truth out there, like strange overarching rules, weird laws governing not space time but perhaps breaks in it, holes in space itself, outer gardens, and mystical hidden paradises, elsewhere dark evil galaxies, competing legions of demoniacs, and Angels of great goodness, maybe places never conquered by anyone, never intellectually tamed for anyone’s final understanding.

 

We aren't perhaps now in the end all of places being here where we are. The lands existing all around us are perhaps not simply a mysterious Heaven and Hell to know. Though evolution is observable and testable it might be by its negotiating arguments yet still be seeing, in its brilliance, an incomplete present picture. Based on its rational this perspective might overlook being in a place where nature gets put into motion and progress by a master scientist unlike any mortal currently known.

 

Dare anyone say this but we yet might have an imperfect model of understanding. As we live nurturing our self-satisfied appetites with truth claims we may be over certain about the truth as usual.

 

What if there was an absence of the uncertainty we know in this life. In this uncertainties absence what if a finally revealed explanation of the truths surrounding our lives brought with it unequivocally a total certainty of good in life, not only merely of hope for the good, but with a certain knowledge offering us a plainly and obvious awareness, known in truth, that life is really made for the good.

 

That kind of certainty then might mean for us that reality is known totally, without any doubt, that concepts like justice, fairness, the good, are known to ultimately exist as more then merely theories to organize our lives with randomly but as intelligent ideas prepared for us long before we existed and dabbled in their pursuits as conscious thinking beings. The “good” we realize therefore then completely exists transcending us with ultimate reasoning and explanations of a good as the overarching plan of our existence.

 

For us knowing this in this way as a truth then would be a knowledge that a fair plan for our fate exists, and if completely revealed, what really exists,  bringing a knowledge and a certainty of a real and total good for us that really is overarching our lives.

 

This kind of hope in a good world now opposes the former scientific view that saw more then merely an uncertainty to life but also presented a hopeless picture prematurely.

 

I strive after the good in life who I believe in as an existent, yet veiled, mysterious, half hidden power, and I trust that this power does really exist as a merciful, fair, God.

 

To know that this good holds all things ultimately in His plan with certainty and that He will reveal to us final happiness, future fearlessness, in a state of eternal joy and painlessness, for me is believable drifting here in the unbelievable realm of reality on planet earth among the cosmos of possibility. Instead of thought and experience merely pointing to a planer and architect of life deceivingly, like some suggest saying our lives are surrounded by absurdity through their skepticism, the greatest joy will be to fully know God as an existent, fair, and just with Him revealing Himself fully and totally so that everything in motion and in life will work out for the good.