State of the Planet

“How do you write about something you don’t understand?” Is the question I often ask myself before writing a blog. This has continued to be true for this blog on the reading of State of the Planet. It talks about a little school girl on her way to learn about life. This world we live in, how did it come to be and what makes it work. It mentions Lucretius, who is a Roman philosopher that’s only know work is Epicureanism De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things or "On the Nature of the Universe". So this text seems to go from this world back to 89BC into deep philosophy. It was very hard for me to follow and I would have been very frustrated if I didn’t know we were going to unpack it in class tomorrow. There was some things that stood out to me however, that even if I did not understand the whole text I can walk away appreciating some of this text. “It must be a gift of evolution that humans can’t sustain wonder. We’d never have gotten up from our knees if we could. But soon enough we’d have fashioned sexy little earrings from the feathers, highlighted our neck bones by rubbings from the rock, and made a spear from the sinewy wood of the tree.” If we were about to sustain wonder we would never get up from our knees. I feel this is true in creation but this immediately applied in my life to God. I have to often down played the wonder of God. If I were to grasp even just a tiny sense of who he is, or his glory or wonder, would I ever be able to stop worshiping him an praising? Why is it has humans we can’t sustain wonder? Is there to much wonder to possibly sustain so we don’t even travel near it? Or do we just make our lives so busy that we pass by it every day not allowing the wonder of life and God to sink in because that would take time?