I’m thinking that some of our best poetry comes to us by means of the music we listen to. There is an admonition in the Baha’i writings: “Take heed, however, lest listening [to music] should cause you to overstep the bounds of propriety and dignity.” (The Kitáb-i-Aqdas), http://www.bahai.org/r/028875513
Nothing provokes my thinking quite like listening to old favorites on a new list Apple Music presented me with this morning in the Get Up! mix.
Seth Aviett’s Faith Undefined feels like a true seeker searching for the intersection between God and humanity. “Faith don’t mean that your life won’t fall apart…. How can God be all knowing and all good and still let such bad go down…”.
Live, What Are We Fighting For?” The world got smaller but the bombs got bigger, holocaust on a hairpin trigger. Ain’t no game so forget the score. What are we fighting for? …We were noting but a shadow, a faceless generation devoid of love… Ain’t nothing more godless than a war, so what are fighting for?”
And then The Head and the Heat, Let’s Be Still. “The world’s just spinning a little too fast. If things don’t slow down soon, we might not last. So, just for a moment, let’s be still.”
If there were any way to talk to Seth I might say, when God created Man he gave us two natures, the spiritual one and the material one. The old Native American saying that one’s development depends on “which wolf you feed” gives insight into how one might manage one’s dual nature.
Also, I would say that in creating Man He gave us free will. These bad things that occur are not the result of God neglecting us, but the very human clash of wills or needs or grasping for power over one another. Which wolf in our collective nature as a society are we overfeeding?
We are reaching a point in the development of the human. race where we can even ask such questions with the expectation that we may be able to locate an answer.
Just stuff floating through my mind this cloudy, rain hinting California morning where the weather is similar to what it has long been and may go on being for some time. If we let it. Oh, the questions and answers we might be working on together if we would just … get over ourselves … and think along a plane other than the one where we’re stuck on one side or another of the large and small questions in life. When stuck, time to shift to other attitudes.
Rising Over the Smoke 