The other day, I
had a talk with someone who thought he knew all about me. He had the impression that I was a sunny
optimist, and his take on my recent funk was not typical of me. He said he thought I was a glass-half-full
person, usually.
Well, I believe I
am. I believe I am also a glass-half
empty person. And I also believe this
applies to everyone.
When you face the
reality of this object lesson, the fact of the matter is that both are equally
true. A simple optimist/pessimist
question becomes a riddle, a puzzle.
To my thinking,
to deny either of them is to deny the other.
This got me pondering. Some would say over thinking, but hear me
out…
I also believe we
are the glass. We are partially full, we
are partially empty. The emptiness and
the fullness gave me the idea to write this blog. It sparked the idea that this partial-ness
gives us our humanity, empathy, and capacity to see the world as we do.
We are told in
Corinthians (KJV) that we see through a glass darkly. [1] I think Paul was talking about us as human,
fallen creatures. The Greek for the word
darkly is αἴνιγμα, or enigmati,
source of our word enigma. So it is not
just seeing our world as through rose colored glasses, or even sunglasses. It is seeing our world as a puzzle.
This object lesson is one of those puzzles.
I don’t think the
emptiness is negative, or positive, only that we make these things so. Likewise our fullness – it is not a positive
or negative, it just IS.
There ya go. The name came, and I began...
[1] 1st
Corinthians 13:12- for now we see through a
glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know
even as also I am known.
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