The Sweet Fruit of Human Goodness,
And/or the Myth of Life’s Divine Purpose
1. It’s a given fact of
life that the purpose of every
seed is to grow into what
it’s meant to be, like the
apple seed that becomes an
apple tree, and the tomato
seed that becomes a tomato
plant, and the proverbial
acorn seed that becomes a
mighty oak, and every
seed on planet Earth that
grows into its own nature;
what then is the seed of
man meant to grow into
if not itself, whatever
that may be?
2. The atoms of God swam
freely in the Great Ocean
of Love and Mercy, laughing
and playing in endless
bliss, never knowing what
they were because they
possessed no
self-reflection; and God, the Great
Creator, sent its atoms
into the world with the divine
imperative to grow into
souls with a self of their own,
like the Romantic poet
whose individual genius saw
God, the Great Creator in
the eyes of his fellow man;
and the myth of the divine
seed took root in the soil
of man’s imagination as the
atoms of God grew
and blossomed into their
own peculiar bliss.
3. From life to life, the
seed of man’s divine nature
returns to live again in
another vessel, another gender,
back and forth in cycles of
learning and growing in every
decision, the fate of free
will granted by God, the Great
Creator; but as it grows in
its own nature, the atom of God
strays from its divine
imperative by the pull of earthly
pleasure, and the
redemptive law of life intervenes with
pain and suffering and
mercifully burns off the false images
of man’s evolving bliss that
keep the divine seed from
its destined purpose of man`s
true nature.
4. The mountains of life
are steep and hard to climb, and
man struggles daily to
reach the summit where happiness
can be found; but all the
happiness of success cannot satisfy
the longing in man’s soul
for wholeness and completeness,
and man falls from his
mountain of too much excess into the
valley of despair where the
light of his destined purpose is
the darkest; and he wanders
from day to day looking for
a way out of the black hole
of his own creation; but just
when man’s despair becomes
too bleak to bear, he’s
summoned by God for a
reckoning.
5. The accidental drowning
of a child or the sudden loss
of a promising career, the
betrayal of infidelity, diagnosis
of a fatal illness, or the devastating
desolation of drug
and alcohol addiction, it all
depends upon the patterns of
behavior born of too much
taking and not enough giving;
and the call to soul’s destined
purpose beckons when life
can do no more to satisfy the
longing in man’s soul, and
a higher path of resolution
must be found.
6. The mountain of
self-fulfillment is steeper and harder
to ascend than the mountain
of success, but the call to climb
it is so strong in man’s
soul that he must make the effort,
in this lifetime or the
next; that’s the only way to reconcile
free will with soul’s destined
purpose into one harmonious
endeavor, and God, the
Great Creator has granted all eternity
to complete what nature
cannot finish so the seed of man’s
divine nature can realize
the sweet fruit of human goodness,
be it art, music, medicine,
or whatever the self of man
produces; that’s the myth
of life’s divine purpose.
