The origins of life? I believe it all comes from God, but that is only part of the story.
It came from God originally and it continues to come from God, is sustained by God, and is brought to its end by God. Life is both fleeting and enduring, but this life gives way to other life and that life must also, some day, to passed to others and to God Himself, the source of life and all that sustains life.
Nature "gets it" without contemplating it.
We contemplate it "to death" and don't "get it."
Life is a circle. Things go around and come around. We begin in the middle and endure past the end. We flow from one and into another.
Life is a line. We have a start and an end and the line continues. Someone began what they could not finish. We continue, but we do not finish either. The line goes on.
Life is every shape imaginable and beyond imagination. It is every color. It is every sound.
Life is a vapor, only because we cannot grasp a better word and the concept takes us into the realm of the undefinable, invisible, incomprehensible nature of things.
Life is life itself.
That is enough to say.
Life, in all of its cyclical, chaotic order and beauty. really is a good thing, but we are so preoccupied with our perception that it is imperfect and that we must control it and cling to our understanding of it that we miss it.
Sometimes we just need to get out of the way and let God renew things.
Live life, life itself.
"These all look to you,to give them their food in due season.When you give it to them, they gather it up;when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.When you hide your face, they are dismayed;when you take away their breath, they dieand return to their dust.When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,and you renew the face of the ground."
(Psalm 104:27-30 ESV)
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