Hard Wired
My new house has a pool. I’ve never lived with a pool before so I’m getting to try some new things. God stopped by last night when I was doing one of those new things and I had to explain myself to her.
It was after dark and there are lights on some of the bushes that are around the pool. In particular there’s some small floodlights that shine up into the avocado tree at the shallow end of the pool. I was floating in the deep end being as still as I could possibly manage. Normally when you’re in a pool there’s a lot of turbulence. Small waves and ripples get kicked up by just moving around and by the actions we all take to keep our heads above water. Not a bad metaphor for daily living, but in this case I’m talking literally not figuratively.
Anyway… If you let the water become still it makes a mirror-like surface, reflecting back a significant part of whatever light strikes it. So I let it get that still. Then, looking towards the shallow end of the pool I can see the avocado tree and also my house and even the sky reflected back up from the surface of the water. Looking down becomes much the same as looking up. And I float out into this and it’s like I’m floating in the air between two skies.
And I find this beautiful.
So that’s what I was doing and what I had to explain to God. She just sort of nodded and told me that she had made sure that humans are pretty much hard wired to see beauty. It’s one of the things that make us special, that makes us more than just animals. She also told me that a lot of people, when they come across something like this, something beautiful where they weren’t really expecting it, a lot of people see that as proof that she exists. It’s not, but as far as things that humans mistakenly attribute to God, she says that she doesn’t mind that one too much.
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