Coracle Trust E-Reflections
What is our beginning?
Tuesday 9 February 2010
Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.
The formation of a new planet
Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.
The Franciscan writer Richard Rohr is keen to remind us that our origin is divine. Our core is original blessing, not original sin and that we do have some place good to go home to. If the beginning is right, the rest is made considerably easier.
We appear then to have forgotten our origins, plastering and painting on a new psyche. One that competes. One that conforms to our perceptions of the changing world through chameleon like adaptation. How will I survive? How will I manage? How will I succeed?
I think about the boy Jesus who ‘grew in wisdom and stature’. I consider the man Jesus silent before the accusing Pilate. I wonder about this wisdom, about a grounded, earthy understanding of genesis. And I suspect my calculated scrambling to adapt and manoeuvre is a million miles, a world away from the stilling message, ‘you are home, come home’.