Blog 370 – 08.10.2016

The merging of two people is a mystery. I am no expert on marriage though I have married four times. Today is the anniversary of my last wedding. Unlike many men I never had any trouble remembering wedding anniversaries. January 2, 1970, June 1, 1974, April 9, 1980, and August 10, 1989. So for you  fortunate or unfortunate guys, depending on how you look at it, I have some advice, quit getting into trouble every year by programming your smart phone or computer to remind you a day or a so early so she’ll think you remembered that all important anniversary on your own.

Back to this business of two becoming one. Most of us know something about “the urge to merge” – the sex drive, but believe it or not there is an even more powerful drive or urge in each of us akin to  it – to feel a part of the Whole. That is because we most often feel like the title of one of my favorite science fiction books, a “Stranger In A Strange Land.”

If I or someone way smarter than I am told you that you are already one with everything you might have a bit of trouble getting your head around that or reconciling all the anecdotal evidence you have collected through out a lifetime that you are a separate, stand alone, independent, free moral agent. What if I told you that along with all that circumstantial evidence to the contrary that you have been given an equal if not greater number of clues throughout your life as to your true identity.

When we truly connect with somene we know that we are not alone in the Universe. We are One with the Universe just as a single drop of water is the ocean, is the river, is the lake, is the stream, is the tear in a child’s eye.

What if your most wild incredible dreams are just memories of previous adventures? And what if the thrilling both to the head and to the heart act of loving another is merely recognizing yourself in someone else. There is a mysterious little glimpse in one of the Gospels of a disguised risen Christ walking up to some disciples who are talking along the way about all that has just happened. He talks to them for some time reveals himself then disappears. Afterwards they say did not our hearts burn within us as he talked with us along the way. And as he was so are we the this world.

We are better off for all that we let in, for every connection, because each reminds of what we forgot so long ago – Who we truly are.

Happy Anniversary.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White