So, it’s the end of the world?
Of course not. It’s 12/12/21 and the cosmos is still navigating through space towards Omega point. Just because there was no more space on the rock of the Mayan calendar, someone thought that there would be no more space for Life. It speaks little of the Creator.
Quite on the contrary, we have only just begun another year of promises. This time offers us, in daily doses, all the new things and contingencies of a future that belongs to God, which is why God herds us to the future.
What a wonderful gift the future is! It’s like a desert inhabited by secrets and mysteries in the shadow of every sand dune… Anything is possible in the future: it is the time of God’s promises!
When the Lord called to Abraham, he summoned him to the future. The past’s present moment registered old age, the barren wife, living in a polytheistic culture. While the future that God extends before Abraham occults Isaac, the son of joy who laughs, the land of milk and honey – the astonishing absolute! –the relationship with the God-that-is-One.
How they misrepresent the future! How they fear it! How they despise it! As do the world’s on-duty determinists, both those who see the world as predetermined from above (as if God had created them to not self-evolve), and those who judge them as predetermined from behind, as if their genes and bodily molecules contain all possibilities already engraved in their design.
And God laughs, stirs chaos, gives birth to a new butterfly, an exquisite orchid, the saint of tomorrow. A river of miracles startles our microscopes. An ocean of impossibilities shocks our telescopes. For the future is impregnated with promises…
In the view of John F. Haught, “…Today it seems that even Science is close to making a revolutionary change in its characteristic understanding of causation simply in terms of the impact of past over present. The recent scientific descriptions of self-organization, of chaos and the complexity of nature in general can hardly hide the constant premonition that these occurrences are all anticipatory in nature. Some way attracted to an undetermined future, these events are more than a mere predictable unfolding of a series of past causes.” (In “God After Darwin,” Basic Books (October 21, 1999)
Yes, we should await new things to come. The current arrangements of flora and fauna, of villages and megacities, of castes and social classes, of powers and hierarchies – all are mere rough drafts of unprecedented novelties.
I see the bird’s nest on the branch of a mulberry tree. There are three eggs. What bird will arise from there? I’ll just have to waitand see… I see the silhouette of two flowers within theirsheath. What will be the color of the orchid in the making? I’lljusthavetowait…
Christians have always known this. They always waited for the New Jerusalem that will descend from the heavens, for the new world free of tears and struggle, forthe eternal banquet feast of the Lamb. To be Christian is to live as the arrow of a tense bow, aimed at the target we will be given at the opportune moment.
In the meantime, we work. We work and await the promises, contributing with our own brick to build the Kingdom to come. We waitfor the great day of the Lord.
At the center of the cosmos, someone will be singing: “Behold, I am making all things new!” (Ap 21.5.)
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