A chronically depressed person has to fight to stay alive. A person seeking God has to fight to for every metaphor, every image, every incarnation. One is not enough; grip it strong enough, make it static, and it will fade; listen to a song often enough and it will lose its power to move you.
I'm on a journey, in a struggle to reach the next oasis. Fighting off the desire to give up is, in many ways, analogous to thirsting for new spiritual food.
If I lie in my bed all day, I'm not living. If I stop seeking after the mystery that is God, I will die.
Existence is thus characterized in terms of survival; we struggle to find subsistence. Physis and Nomos. Living in Nomos, living in our artificial world, we can find food, but we still have to struggle to provide for ourselves in terms of meaning, purpose, and new images by which to commune with God. That is, perhaps, our primal connection with the reality of Physis, despite our addiction to Nomos. We have made food abundant, but we still hunger. We in the Global North have seen to our material needs. Great. But we have spiritual and emotional and social needs. Have we seen to those? Can we see to those as long as we are living in the artificial reality of Nomos?
Existence is thus characterized in terms of survival; we struggle to find subsistence. Physis and Nomos. Living in Nomos, living in our artificial world, we can find food, but we still have to struggle to provide for ourselves in terms of meaning, purpose, and new images by which to commune with God. That is, perhaps, our primal connection with the reality of Physis, despite our addiction to Nomos. We have made food abundant, but we still hunger. We in the Global North have seen to our material needs. Great. But we have spiritual and emotional and social needs. Have we seen to those? Can we see to those as long as we are living in the artificial reality of Nomos?
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