Predestination

When I was 21 years old and a senior in college, I was absolutely sure that Janice and I would be married six months after graduation. I was so sure that when she told me her former boyfriend was home on leave and wanted to see her, I said, “Fine, invite him to the wedding.” (OK, now you know what’s coming!) The next day, she took me for a walk right off the campus green and into shark-infested waters. She told me she was going to marry him, NOT ME! I was depressed for three years, three long, drunken, stoned years!

Fifty years later, Carol Ann and I are living the dream under the big blue Pacific sky and seeing each other about five times a week. We were in love, playing lots of golf, traveling, and having sex three times a day. (See article on ‘Sex 3 Times a Daily’)”. I often BBQed, making Ray-man’s famous Pittsburgh steak and heated salad. (See article on ‘Food’).

Carol Ann was invited to her 50th High School Reunion. (And again, friend, you know what is coming next, with a slight variation - LOL). There she met her first lover, and suddenly, I am number two! Our five nights became four, then three, then two. And then, my friend, something GLORIOUS happened to me. For instead of becoming depressed and angry, I forgave her, myself, and especially God (See articles on ‘Miracles’ and ‘Forgiveness’).

For a more in depth understanding of predestination, see the book, “Sacred Contracts”, by Caroline Myss. In her book, she argues for her belief in that each of us make a contract with God before we are born. And to the degree that we fulfill our contract is to the same degree we are fulfilled in life.

THE HOOVER DAM

On December 20, 1921, John Gregory Tierney drowned while surveying sites for the dam. He was the first person to die while working on the dam. On December 20, 1935, his son, Patrick William Tierney fell to his death from an intake tower during construction. He was the last person to die while working on the dam. Father and son, first and last to die while working on the dam, died fourteen years apart on the same day.

And I can give you ten more major examples of why I believe in predestination. We all have a time to be born and a time to pass on in God’s plan for the Heavenly Universe! So do not worry about anything, my friend. It is already preset, and predestined in God’s good plan for us, better than any of us could have planned it ourselves. Just do the best you can, and get out of the way, and leave the rest to God.

UNCOVERY

I

Contemplation

Bang

a singularity

miracle of miracles

and ‘you’ exist.

A part of the expansion

a part of Heaven

from the Greek word Ouranos

a bang into an expansion.

You, here, now,

reading, listening

interpreting

thinking

feeling

imagining the unimaginable

that singularity then

your individuality now.

Alone among billions

each an earthbound star

eyes reflecting light

ears encompassing sound

voices expressing feeling

minds considering consciousness.

Extending

further and further

always

changing

this solitary eternal moment

of your existence.

Imagine

imagine

you existing

as stardust then

in human form now

with mindfulness

observing you.

Consider the purpose

(or even the non-purpose)

for we were born to contemplate this

at the moment of the singularity

to contemplate this

to come to know

what the Gatekeeper wants us to know.

II

Light

Atomic signals

light shining upon us

in us

through us

interpreting truth.

Kingdoms of OZ overthrown by Artificial Intelligence

DNA and death out of the closet

the grim reaper is worried

the homage is the homage to science.

Microscope and telescope the magic wands

the scientist is the prophet of our time

of this there is no doubt

and the Gatekeeper wants us to know

the Gatekeeper wants us to enter by this way.

Follow, follow, follow

along the way of imagining

not by discovery

but by uncovery

as the artichoke leaves uncover the heart

a simple finding of what is already there.

As like E=MC squared was always there

waiting, for big Al, the Man,

to uncover it for us to know

to uncover what already exists

so that we may marvel at the knowing.

Hubble vision is the contact lens

the micro is the macro on a computer screen

through all frequency time machines

and always in the becoming

the showing of miracles on a routine basis.

Yes, the miracle has become the mundane

(for this we could be found guilty)

losing it all in the taking for granted

the way a lover loses his beloved

by taking her for granted.

The Light is the Rosetta Stone

the Light holds the wisdom of what we uncover

the Light is the way of deciphering the mystery

as Angels cradle galaxies in their hands

and the Gatekeeper smiles upon their creations.

III

Destiny

This very moment

on a sunny ocean beach

in anticipation of expectant release

a child holds sand in a tiny hand.

Another moment

somnus black potentiality

pregnantly awaiting its singularity

like the wombed infant

remaining ready to go forth.

Bang!

destiny unfolds

a tiny hand and singularity respond

all flowing outward

ready to accomplish

its preordained place

(Its work)

of filling time and space.

Galaxies, stars, planets, earth,

you, I, and they,

this very moment decreed

for science tells us of the physicality.

Each grain to land

preordained

each planet meant to be

billions meant to breathe

at the moment of the singularity.

The Angels are smiling upon us.

The Gatekeeper wants us to enter by this way.