Creation!
Think about it.
This world operates on a kind of cosmic auto-pilot where Divine Order prevails.
Buds turn into flowers, acorns to oaks, tadpoles to frogs and an egg and sperm into a human being.
It is automatic, pre-programmed alchemy, mixed with a dash of abracadabra and a pinch of magic.
If you’ve ever planted a garden from seeds you’ve witnessed this.
One day there is dirt. Then maybe some dirt and fertilizer. Later, you throw down some seeds, quite randomly actually, trying your best to duplicate Mother Nature; add some water and sunshine and voila! In a few days, from what was previously barren earth, little green sprouts start to peek their way into existence.
You, with a lot of help from the Universe, have created SOMETHING from NOTHING.
That never ceases to amaze me when I slow down long enough to actually let it sink in.
SOMETHING from NOTHING.
Ideas become real, caught in third dimension, for eyes to behold, scholars to ponder, haters to hate.
We cannot help it, residing in this world of creation.
It is everywhere.
Bee hives and boobies, birds nests, coral reefs, ant hills.
Nature is constantly showing off. Her cycles of birth, life and death, showing us the way.
It’s that ashes to ashes thing she does so well.
SOMETHING from NOTHING.
The earliest men and women stared at the blank walls of their caves and after dinner and dishes, they drew with ash from their fire what they saw around them.
It’s in our genes.
A blank canvas calls the painter to it, like the marble summons the sculptor.
Aren’t we all glad the marble didn’t summon the painter, the canvas the cook?
Divine Order is savvy that way. An acorn doesn’t become a rosebush any more than we hatch from eggs, it’s all been worked out and it’s perfect.
SOMETHING from NOTHING
It’s the same with writing.
I start with a blank screen. Some days it taunts me with its blankness, but then the Muse starts to talk, and when she talks I listen – and I write.
Soon, that blank screen is filled with five hundred words. In the old days I would have been engulfed in a sea of crumpled rejects, these days if something doesn’t jell it’s as easily forgotten as delete, delete, delete.
I know I’m no different from every other writer when I confess to being as surprised as anyone, that the ideas actually make it to the page.
SOMETHING from NOTHING.
Cooking.
Random ingredients, spices, oil, water, et al, gathered into an empty pot, simmering, beckoning for recognition. An hour ago this dish ceased to exist. I’ve said it before – add the final ingredient, LOVE.
It’s freaking alchemy. I’m telling you.
If you make jewelry, it all starts with an idea. Then add gold, stones and artistry.
If you build a house – idea. Then add dirt lot, lumber, elbow grease.
If you write a song, it’s an idea that attaches itself to music. How about THAT.
Every Corporation, company, great cause, charity, invention, started as an invisible idea.
SOMETHING from NOTHING.
As I see it, it goes:
idea, intent, execution…..stand back……repeat.
We all do this in so many aspects of our day to day life, I think it’s important to recognize the alchemy and be appreciative of the fact that Divine Order exists.
SOMETHING from NOTHING.
What do you think? What have you created today?
Do you take the time to notice Divine Order in nature?
I’d love it if you told me what you create from nothing – Share it with us!
If you’d rather listen than read, I get it, here you go:
https://soundcloud.com/jbertolus/something-from-nothing
Big love,
Xox
