Many of us commemorate Christmas, whether you are religious or not, there is no doubt that you will be filled with the spirit of the celebration. Christmas is customary in our west civilization, and it is a powerful imagery of our roots. Christendom emerged from the Middle Ages; this period cemented the bases for the Renaissance, an enlightenment era. Was in the Renaissance that for the first time God and humans (almost) touched each other with their fingertips… a powerful metaphor that Michelangelo di Lodovico teaches us in a beautiful fresco painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It’s thought that Michelangelo was inspired by Middle Ages’s hymn relating to the Holly Spirit; one specific, The hymn
When I look back over my shoulder to peek at the year left behind, I feel a mixed bag of feeling. It has been exceedingly difficult.
Challenging times require spirit, we all are fatigued at this point, but we can always reach inside for guidance.
You may be lost at this point (within the pandemic), but that so is the nature of life, because life is an adventure. Being in an adventure is being lost from time to time, isn’t it?
Think about this: It’s a privilege to be alive, the fact that you are alive is a miracle.
For sciences “we are literally a quantum lumps”, although we don’t see quantum fluctuations in small scales (like us), all those (quantum fluctuations) at the beginning of times eventually created planets, stars, galaxies and ultimately us. So, for you to have been born many events have passed, so from all that physical uncertainty you have been born. Thus, you are star dust.
Any time you feel down think about the miracle you are.
What is Christmas all about?
When I look back over my shoulder to peek at the year left behind, I feel a mixed bag of feeling. It has been exceedingly difficult.
Challenging times require spirit, we all are fatigued at this point, but we can always reach inside for guidance.
You may be lost at this point (within the pandemic), but that so is the nature of life, because life is an adventure. Being in an adventure is being lost from time to time, isn’t it?
Think about this: It’s a privilege to be alive, the fact that you are alive is a miracle.
For sciences “we are literally a quantum lumps”, although we don’t see quantum fluctuations in small scales (like us), all those (quantum fluctuations) at the beginning of times eventually created planets, stars, galaxies and ultimately us. So, for you to have been born many events have passed, so from all that physical uncertainty you have been born. Thus, you are star dust.
Any time you feel down think about the miracle you are.
A blessing Christmas to all,
Carlos