A Memo For You
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A Memo for You!? But who are you, really, and of what do you
need
to be reminded? Of something not so far from each and every one
of
us? The elephant in the room, perchance!? The truth!?
Ahhhthe
truth! But what is truth? And from whence is our
forgetfulness?
There is a myth, dating back at least to the time of Plato, in
ancient
Greece, that before we are born, we drink from the River Lethe
the
river of forgetfulness or oblivion so that we cannot remember
our
real origin and destiny which is somehow prior to (or
transcendent of)
the unfolding of our existence in space and time. It is
interesting to
note that the Greek word for truth is aletheia which can be
construed
(quite literally) as that which is no longer forgotten or that
which no longer escapes our
noticethat which, if seemingly unknown, must be remembered or
recollected (cf. GK
aletheia; alethes; lanthano; lethe). For us to arrive
at the truth, then, is in some sense to remember that
which we have forgotten or to turn our attention to
that of which we have, for a time, become oblivious.
This is consistent with a very plausible
interpretation of an otherwise obscure passage in
Ecclesiastes which seems to be saying that
whatever God does endures forever (3:14) but that
He has put a sense of past and future into [our]
minds such that we cannot find out what [He] has
done from the beginning to the end (3:11). The veil of time, it
seems, renders us oblivious to the
true glory and integrity of creation and would seem to be
closely related to that which is
portrayed in Genesis 3 as the punishment that we incurred after
having eaten of the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil which resulted in our
alienation from God, together with
the experience of suffering and death which that entails. The
predicament we find ourselves in is
quite complex, but the solution, as we shall see, is very
simple. We need only to turn, in faith,
toward the One in whom we live and move and have our being by
trusting in and relying on the
I Am presence which IS the living Christ (cf. Acts 17:27-28;
John 14:6).
John Astin sings: [Listen Online]
Why have you come to earth?
Do you remember?
Why have you taken birth?
Why have you come?
To love, to serve, and remember...
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