Friday, September 25, 2020

Mystery

      It seems to be built into our very human nature to be compelled to solve a mystery.  We cannot understand why some things cannot be explained or even be reproduced.  ANY mystery requires a solution.  And if we cannot find one, we become frustrated.  We demand that a solution be presented to us or we may begin to form our own whether it is the correct solution of not!

     Let me give you an example:  Many of us love a good murder mystery, a real “who dunnit” type of show.  We enjoy them by reading novels, or watching them as a movie.  In some areas they have become extremely popular as “diner murder mysteries” where you get to be included in the events while partaking of a nice meal with a group of other people.

     However, in the end, you want to know WHO committed the murder.  You want the mystery solved!  If you went through a two-hour meal or sat at the theatre for two hours watching a movie and then where told it was over, but no solution had been presented to the murder, you would almost feel that you had been cheated.  The same could be said about any type of mystery situation.

     Imagine you are sitting in the audience watching a sleight-of-hand professional on stage.  He comes down into the audience and performs his tricks directly in front of several people who can watch closely to “catch” him in his moment of deception.  You KNOW what you are watching is a trick!  However, you are still mystified by what you are seeing.  This performance of prestidigitation and legerdemain that is taking place before your very eyes is dumbfounding.  You are fully aware that this collection of dexterous hand movements is designed to manipulate objects and deceive you as a spectator. Fully aware of this you are still baffled by the “mystery” because you are unable to figure out how it is being done!  And in most cases once you do figure out the solution to this mystery (if you ever do) you are no longer impressed by the presentation.  You have taken the joy out of your watching the performance.

     You can thereby understand the human reaction when someone tells you they have seen a certain movie, or read a certain book, or perhaps gone to a specific performance, their friends quickly say: “Don’t tell me what happens!”  They are very adamant that you not reveal to them the “mystery” that they want to experience for themselves.  I think most of us can understand that type of feeling.  Some of you will have NO idea what I am talking about but it’s like watching the old Disney movie “Old Yeller.”  This was a 1957 drama film about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas.  It almost tugs at your heart-strings from the beginning to the end. However, when you often mention it to older ones who can remember the story plot, they will reply: “They kill Old Yeller at the end, don’t they?”  That really takes the mystery out of the entire movie.

     Regardless of what questions our minds my conceive, we are always looking for the answers to those questions.  Why is the sky blue?  Why is grass green?  Why do we get old?  Why do good people have so many problems?  And the list could go on and on.  It is almost as if we can not be content without knowing the answer to anything that is a mystery to us.

     Why is the sun so hot and yet it is so cold in outer space?   Why?  How?  When?  We always want to know the things that we presently do not.  To a great degree this is a good thing.  But, at the same time, it tends to take away the mystery of our believing in miracles.  By their very nature miracles are a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.

     By removing the mystery within any event, we, in actuality, lower our ability to believe that things can and do happen that we simply have not been designed to understand.  We cannot even fathom that wrapped within the confines of several pounds of muscle, organs, tissue, and flesh is one of the greatest miracles of all time - - - US!  But, then again, we’re only human!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER


THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Enjoy the wonderment 

of what you cannot explain."





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