' everything God does is marked with simplicity and power' Tertullian

'Every road you travel down you find Shakespeare traveling back.' The works of the bard are unique for their astonishing ability to address so many areas of the human condition with all their attendant nuances,  subtleties , twists and shades. But thousands of pages of masterful prose that weave a spiders web of emotions come down to a mere 26 letters of the Roman alphabet and a brain that reduces to strands of DNA. The paintings of the great masters Rembrandt , Michelangelo , Monet all reduce to the use of a handful of primary colors. We are children of the stars on the surface so complicated and intricate but at our core carbon life forms simple beings but with immense power. Look at human brain  under a microscope  the building block of all civilization and learning .All our achievements in science, medicine and physics destiny in a collection of cells.

Even human relationships themselves come down to a few basic choices yes or no, truth or lie , love or indifference with a clear consequence resulting in each decision.. Isn't also true that the simplest things in life bring the greatest joy a walk in the countryside , an expression of love such as holding hands the more complicated we make our lives the more winding and twisted the road the more stressful and unhappy we become.

The extraordinary thing to me about the message of Christ in the gospels is its simplicity and directness and yet they contain a strength that endures through the centuries and changed countless lives for the better. No matter how often you read his words they always seem fresh a sandglass that never runs dry. If you take two of the strongest elements of Christian worship the breaking of bread and taking wine at the communion or the Lord's Prayer how can two things which are at their essence so simple carry such metaphysical weight ?

' to see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand .....' Blake

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