Mahal kita

1. God gave us Life so that we may cherish Life and be cherished by Life.

Just thought about this during the sudden attack of paranoia yesterday morning. The thought of death reminds me of this.

It applies in many ways; say, we bring a child into Life, celebrate the creation and gift of Life, pour our Love into this Life, and then when we grow old and are dying, Life takes care of us; or say, in Nat ‘King’ Cole’s words, “The greatest thing / you’ll ever learn / is just to love / and be loved / in return.”

So cherish Life. Remember that you’re breathing, you’re alive, you’re full of Life, Life is in you, every single cell of you. The more you cherish Life, the more Life will cherish you. But don’t forget to give thanks (to God, or whatever you believe in) for Life. Every single day. Every single second. Every tiniest moment.

(And if you believe in the Afterlife, it gets even better, because Life is not merely taken away and lost forever; instead, it is replaced with Eternal Life—and we shall cherish it just the same. Somehow, what comes to mind is Browning’s “—and, if God choose, / I shall but love thee better after death.”)

2. Science is all about answering the question: “Why did God make it that way?”

This, from a lovely conversation with my dearest love last night :-)

Suppose we ask “Why is the sky blue?” and someone answers “Because God made it that way.” If everyone were satisfied with such an answer, then there wouldn’t be Science, would there?

For example, if we were satisfied that stars decorate the sky because God made it so, then astronomers, who have discovered the significance of stars in calculating dates and finding directions, would not have come to be, would they?

Science, it appears to me, is about asking this one further question to any of God’s creation. Look at the significance of how electrons move and how it does so in different materials and how it behaves—without someone having pondered all that, I wouldn’t be using this computer this very moment.

Attempting to explain and understand worldly phenomena is then not as bad as being obsessed with worldly things, but it is partly discovering God’s wisdom too. Because God’s wisdom manifests in everything around us, and it is up to us to strive to answer, “Why did God make it that way?” — that is Science.