Heavenletters

For some time I have been wondering, How many things are the way they are because we said so? All of them? If we can declaim our children to years of turmoil with a toss of our head, that's powerful, isn't it? The power does not reside in the words themselves but in our intentions as formed by our beliefs and expectations. Usually we resort to "experience" to explain why things are the way they are. Experience tells us that teenagers are this way and that. Perhaps all of that is just hearsay. What an amazingly fitting word, hear-say-hear-say-hear-say-hear.....

We also use "experience" to explain why we don't understand each other. You can only understand in another that which you have experienced yourself - the honey thing. I find it harder every day to go on believing this. Why, for example, does happy not understand unhappy and vice versa? I suspect it's mostly because we keep repeating our experientially won wisdom until everyone takes it for granted. Does our anthropology, scientific or pop, prevent our knowing each other? I believe that on the level of what God calls the "innocent beating heart" here, we all know each other intimately. I long to meet you there, every single one of you, beneath our "grime" and "superannuated egos".