Singularity

If you can accept that God was all there was prior to the “big bang”, then it stands to reason that God is still all there is; as the “big bang” is just the expansion into space-time of a singularity.

The singularity, became multiplicity. Yet it still remained as it was; a unified whole. When you look upon the singularity, and see it only in terms of it’s multiplicity, you see only divisions. When you look upon the singularity as a whole, you see only connections. Looking past the distinctions, you see unity. It is the unity of all things that provides the canvas for the paint. Our similarities that provide the stage and props for the players. It is our common hopes, fears, and desires that provide the basis of all human interaction and experience.

When confronted with the majesty, wonder, and grandeur of the multiplicity, it is easy to overlook the simple truths of the singularity. Without these simple truths as the bedrock for our understandings and behavior, it is easy to become lost in the labyrinth of multiplicity. The promise of happiness, peace and understanding are always tantalizingly just around the next corner.; always leading you to the next, and the next, and the next, in the never ending pursuit of more. The irony of the pursuit of more, is that it comes from a belief in less. It comes from the belief in your isolation from the singularity. For if you are still within all that is, how could you possibly be without? So we chase the next, and forget that in chasing something else, you lose sight of what you have.

We search for God, we search for meaning, we chase them around corners in this labyrinth of life; all the while forgetting that if God is omnipresent, then God is this entire expanded, unified whole. God is within us, as surely as we are within God. God is in the last place you expect to look; the last place you ever need to look.

God is inside.