Is The Spirit Guiding Us Through the End of an Age?
Posted by Chuck Freeman | Filed under Religion & Culture
We live in curious times indeed. A black man becomes the American President. The financial system is doing a Titanic act worldwide. The Mayans say 2012 is the end of an era. I’m told we are in a square of Uranus and Pluto. Astrologers say this signifies the collapse of the old the birth of the new. It is the energy of revolution. The last time this square occurred in these same Zodiac signs was during the late 1700s, the time of both the American and French Revolutions.
The Arab Spring is becoming the European/American Autumn. Over 1000 seats of power and money are being occupied from Athens to Wall St. The old and new intersected as civil rights pioneer Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and tech revolutionary Steve Jobs died on the same day.
Is there energy moving beyond our human conniving?
When John the Baptist’s disciples complained that Jesus was getting more airtime than he was John replied, “No one can receive anything except what is given from heaven. He must increase but I must decrease.”
Curious indeed.
The Tao Te Ching expresses a similar perspective.
“Man follows the earth.
Earth follows the universe.
The universe follows the Tao.
The Tao follows only itself.”
Jesus commissioned his followers to spread the good news to all nations. He then assured them, “Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Jesus shocked everyone by teaching that we will do “greater works” than he accomplished.
He promised, that the Spirit of Truth would guide us. In his farewell Jesus comforted his disciples, “In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
I’m not a Jesus or Bible literalist but I do believe a Spirit greater than us is stirring, and that surely that Spirit is with us. As always, the ageless question echoes – are we moving with the Spirit?
October 14, 2011 at 11:12 am
I agree! Tyler will have an Occupy Wall Street event in downtown whil the Rose Parade is going on. I’ll write about it for KLTV in your community–up to 25 articles in 2011 with them.