LIVING IN THE TENSION

[JERRY C]

LIVING IN THE TENSION



Visualize a figure suspended in space between opposing forces.  It is floating, slowly spinning, reacting to any movement away from the center of the forces' orb, by relocating back to center.  If somehow it were to fail to respond to this correction, it would go flying out into a dark void, perhaps irretrievably.

What are these opposing forces?  mercy and holiness, patience and perfection, growth and goodness, love and law, reality and possibility, ... they all hold, in suspended protection, this life force as it evolves into its destiny.

But, for some reason it is desirable to gravitate toward one or the other, it seems.  Why?  Impatience?  Ignorance? Some other outside force?  Living in the tension is uncomfortable, on one level; but, on another level it is stimulating and soothing, all at once.

To violate this balance is destructive to individuals, groups, thinking, actions.  Warped, damaged, mutated perversions form too quickly, and the original ideal is lost.  In fact, it is seen as an evil aberration of the new center.  All frame of reference is lost, and soon, the darkness is somehow not only accepted, but approved, and accentuated.  The "truth is exchanged for a lie