now-ness and mostpeople

Most people live their lives in calculated steps marching to their internal mental metronome. They choose to go gently into that good night. They measure their moments by pleasure and risk management. Most people in the church are prone to use worship as a guilt squelching, touchy feely, two dose shot in the arm. It’s just tragic. Most people are far too busy achieving to see the subtext of the supernatural. They will end their lives in greater regret of the smallness of lives hypnotic noises and the drone of the daily grind. Let’s not be “Most people.” E.E. Cummings prefaced a collection of his poems with an amazing leture about “mostpeople.”   I don’t know whether he ever found God as a poet, painter, and author but I do believe he accidentally described the life of one shaken by the Holy Spirit.  

We are human beings; for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery, the mystery of growing. You and i wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life, for eternal us, is now; and now is much too busy being a little more than everything to seem anything, catastrophic included.

Yes, now truly is everything for us. We must embrace the now-ness and see what happens to us in this dance with God’s Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a celebration of what can happen when a believer looks at the wreck of this world, ponders the possibility that God can change it, and asks, “Why not?”