credo 3 - time then there were things to learn then. nature. history. science. skills. right and wrong. i tried to learn them and came to the edge of knowing. achievement was hard and raised no attention. failure was easy and raised much attention. there were things to believe then. jesus. god. country. i tried to believe them and came to the edge of believing. saying yes was easy and raised no attention. saying no was hard and raised much attention. learning and believing were overlapping domains. sunday - monday. different cultures. different people. same language. my awareness was in the overlap. i was a visitor in each of the two worlds. middle the middle place was busy and full. work and play. babies and gardens. friends and family. doing, not studying. solving, not waiting. making memories. fulfilling dreams. now jesus has become the truth inside his stories. god has become the ground of being. country has become the whole earth. i do not believe. i hope. what i have come to know, i remember. what i do not know is a familiar boundary. in between knowing and not knowing, i find hope. i am the sum of all who made, taught and befriended me. i am all the things i have done and all the thoughts i have had.

credo considers what is - after considering what is not. these three mc escher etchings well illustrate the growing of understanding. "heaven and hell" illustrates the duality in the grand scheme of all first learning. good and evil are our first lessons. they are made simple to distinguish. "mosaic II" suggests the tightly meshed realities beyond first views. things are near and new and intense. there are hints at the mythology contained in all images. "sky and water" speaks of the gradual way life teaches we fishes to fly. the fish is symbolic of christianity, the sea of knowledge. transformation is resonant here. the above images are fed from and linked to the mcescher site for copyright reasons.

1journey.net     feb 2008 elias