March 4th Readings..Psalm 139:15-17..Isaiah 66:3-4..Hebrews 11:24-25 The future is not a foregone conclusion. But when we give God permission to intervene and bring about His will in us, still again and again He offers us choices, perhaps between one good and another. This is so that we can create through our choices, enabling Him to bring into being things He had long ago planned for us. He constantly plans for me in love, and in His mercy He never allows me to see the might-have-beens that only He could see. In one of Charles Williams poems he describes the images of possibilities as carved in stone and rock hidden for ever under the sea unless our choices call them into being, until they become visible and become realities: Before the making of man or beast the Emperor knew all carved contingent shapes.....These were the shapes only the Emperor knew. Sideways in the cleft they lay. and the seamews wings everywhere flying, or the mist, or the mere slant of the things seemed to stir them; then the edge of the storms shock over us obliquely split rock from rock.... Did you not see, by the dolorous blows might, the contingent knowledge of the Emperor floating into sight?..the sculpture, the living sculpture, rose and flew! FROM TALIESIN THROUGH LOGRES
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