The Circle

We all know what a circle looks like. We are so familiar with it that we seldom give it a thought unless it has a specific connotation. One such connotation was a song in the "African King"; "The Circle of Life." I have no doubt that over the centuries that people have been worshipping God in all of His manifestations, the circle has played its part. This is fitting, I believe, because it is my opinion that the Circle explains how God achieves immortality in our lives. They say that if you start out in any direction in the universe you will eventually end up in the place that you started from. It wouldn't surprise me if this were true since I believe that all reality is in the form of a Circle. No matter where we happen to be at the current time, it is axiomatic that we will come there again some distant day. From the simple to the complex and then to the simple again. In case you haven't noticed that has been our experience on this planet. Go see the movie, "2012",not for the truth of its plot, but for the truth about our planet. We live in an exceedingly dangerous place. I can name 5 different ways that the planet can turn lethal; (1) Supervolcano; (2) crustal shift; (3) comet; (4) asteroid; and (5) a flood such as the one that took the earth in the time of Noah. Any one of these things has wiped out most of the life on earth, and can be expected to repeat itself some fine day, if not in 2012. We have surmounted these challenges, or we would not be here at the present time. The Permian Extinction took 95% of life. We were saved by the 5% who went on to evolve into human beings. However, if 95% of life were to be taken again, it is clear that our civilization could and would cease to exist. Perhaps our entire species with the need for evolution to provide a new sentient being somewhere in the distant future. Did God intend this to be so when He created the earth? You do the math. What does it mean for us? I believe that since the Circle of Life is eternal, we can assume that we will come again. At the end of "Dr. Strangelove", the great movie by Peter Sellers, where the world is destroyed by the bomb, they sing the song, "We'll meet again." If that is God's ultimate method, we certainly will. We are eternal and we live on an eternal circle. Don't fear 2012, its only a blip on the road of life.