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A Contemplation
March 15, 2026
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Among my contemplations...
Among those questions that arose in my mind...
Of... what was... what is... the truth...
Was... the wonder of miracles.
Are there really such things as these...
And how are miracles always... right on time... ?
And how sometimes... those miracles do not happen...
Or at least... what we can see of them.
Was God really... everywhere...?
Or... are there really angels... that do those miracles...
Or... was it like the wind...
That happens... like it was planned...
Or that... the stage was set...
the players were placed...
the pieces that must collide... will... collide...
Or...
Aren't miracles... un-natural...?
Don't they intervene in the order of the natural...?
Aren't they... out of order...?
And...
I think about the Sabbath...
And the story given to us about God... resting.
We are told that... when God finished his creation...
All was good... and finished...
And so... God... rested.
Were miracles a part of this finished beauty...?
Or... were miracles... God's... and only God's...
A power reserved only for the creator of this great beauty...
To have it be... what God wished it to be...
For God to be whatever he wished to be...
To be... whomever... he wished to be...
Perhaps even... be a stone...
Perhaps even... to be a man...
A power reserved only for its creator...
Who knows us all... so well...
Like a father who has watched his children grow...
And knows them...
Perhaps... He never trespasses too far...
out of respect... for our own truth...
A father who knows... life...
Knows life and life's ways...
Truth... is found... in... freedom...
But we really are... still... too gentle...
and truth... changes us...
Too much truth... changes our truth...
and we become false...
And we must find our own way...
in a way that we... know... too.
When did God create... angels...?
Is this a problem of translation...?
Did a language not have a better word...?
So that when scribes made copies of scrolls
did they make corrections...?
It is only after Jesus' time
When his followers quoted problematic verses...
That a group formed to protect the original scriptures...
Masoretes...
Protect them from the editing of scribes and priests.
After AD 70 or so...
no corrections were allowed...
and words within the scrolls... were counted... and marked.
This adding notes and corrections was such a problem
that it was decided by these Masoretes to stop it...
at whatever state these scriptures were in... at that date...
there would be no further editing of them.
Additions and corrections had become unfathomable.
After centuries of these copyings... and translations...
The state the writings were in... was the state that they would stay...
before the pieces themselves would be lost
by another round of editing and corrections.
And so...
Angels... were an ancient standard belief in many religions...
Among the Romans and the Greeks...
Among the Gentiles and the priests.
Belief in angels did not come through the Hebrews.
We can only speculate for ourselves, now.
Did God become a snake...?
When are we told that God created angels...?
What holy mystery might it be...?
when God himself was said to say..
"I am that I am"...
or... "I will be what I will be''.
And perhaps...
God visits his children and checks on us...
and sets on us... what we need...
sets into motion the forces that be...
and sees that all goes well...
or... perhaps He relies on us to play our part...
in creating good things... and making good things happen.
Perhaps...
we should be a good companion to God...
and give him... good company when he comes to visit.
If so... we must decide... what... that... is.
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