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Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:09

order from below

art-clutterEvery system in the universe has many forces acting on it that have the potential to disrupt and disorganize the original intended order.  In the beginning, God pulled His “light” into the universe as the energy of creation and good.  Our job is to tap into that light and help be little mini-agents of creation. When we bring order back into our lives, we are actually acting in emulation of the First Agent Who facilitated this creation process. The sages teach us that the “Spirit of God / Ruach Elohim”, which hovered over the deepness of chaos, was the Spirit of Messiah. 

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Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:45

order from above

art-galaxies2G-d must be an engineer.  Well, at least I try to tell myself this.  We all look at Hashem through the lenses of our own experience.  I like to build things, and have done so to varying degrees since I was a child.  I know that one of the “hats” Hashem wears is that of Creator, Builder, and Thinker Upper of Stuff.  The Torah is filled with stories and accountings of great detail.  G-d is a G-d of order, we are all told.  But you need only open up the first story to understand the order of creation and start to apply it to your own life.

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Tuesday, 12 October 2010 16:20

order in the face of chaos

art-minersLuis Urzua has played a special role in this drama [Chilean mine ordeal]. He is credited with having kept the miners together back in August when there was no hope in sight.  When the rescue mission was planned, he chose to be the last miner out. Mr Urzua, 54, known respectfully as Don Lucho by the miners, kept them going for those awful first 17 days, when no one up above even knew they had survived. "For a miner, their shift leader is sacred and holy," rescue official Dr Andreas Llarena told the UK's Guardian newspaper. "They would never think about replacing him. That is carved in stone; it is one of the commandments in the life of a miner."            -- bbc.co.uk 10/13/2010

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