We continue with another section of Walter Wink’s “The Human Being.”
As Hildegard of Bingen put it, “Now God has built the human form into the world structure, indeed even the cosmos, just as an artist would use a particular pattern in her work.” That is, we begin not with individuality but relatedness. We are not individuals but interbeings, and the goal is not individuality but individuation.
Within the “whole picture,” there is no insignificant piece. Each color and every brushstroke adds to the completeness of what the artist attempts to bring forward in a work of art. When I’m in an art museum, I love to look at a painting on the wall from far way and then move right up to it…as close as I am able. When I am very close, it is difficult to see how everything possibly could come together…but then, it is also an amazing to see that within these few brushstrokes and minor changes in color the whole begins to take shape. It is then good to step away and take a look at the whole painting. The up close view is now impossible to see in itself for it is now truly itself in the midst of relationship to the whole.
Connection: Today is a piece of art…so what pieces have you been trying to leave out of the picture and in so doing, miss the beauty of what could be when all the pieces have a place.?
As we move to separate ourselves from others and from you, O God, pull us in and bring us home to that place in you that binds us together with other saints around us. Disturb us with your gift of community so that we will be ushered into a whole new way of being your beloved people today. Amen.
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