When we do a whole bunch of things we think will return us structure and safety, if we can distill that approach down to it’s purest claim, we’re essentially betting on our own agency to decide what’s best for our security, thus brushing away the invitation of God to experience joy. In this, we have business, the unending cycle of gathering and collecting for no real reason outside of having those things. We’re trying to catch wind.

Translated like this: when you die, everything that you accomplished and accumulated here is staying here as you experience eternity with this King you have yet to fully meet, in a house of glory you’d never begin to halfway imagine. This stuff down here is useless where you’re going, and you’re not taking it with you, so whatever it is you do, enjoy it to its fullest extent, for it’s from God’s hand that you have the opportunity to experience it.

We have a ton of diamonds, and they mean zilch outside of God. That’s not a bad thing.

Explore with me, God says, and don’t anticipate any effort on your part except where I might ask you to step next. Let me do this for you while you relinquish any control and power to me, though you can absolutely build something strong and tall (because don’t forget, they were able to actually build a tower - the question wasn’t ‘could they,’ it was 'should they?’).

I could totally build a friggin awesome tower, and I’ve been trying for years.

Woe offers one of the richest soils for fruit to pour forth from the creating of the one who tends the garden. It’s from within woe where we find our deepest unmet needs, our darkest and scariest doubts, and the purest source of empathy to comfort those around us who have felt the same vicious grip of despair.

The ointment to the inflammation of this selfish desire is something I’ve found to be a key ingredient to man’s purpose, and that would be “wonder.”

In the activity of wonder, one doesn’t have the definition or result in hand, only the mystery beckoning a wild pursuit. When the mystery and titillation is strong enough, the journey is adventurous and captivating to an extent that putting a dog-ear in the corner of the page only intensifies this craving to find out what happens next.