LAW OF THREE (17) Our Life Has to Be Constantly Renewed.

LAW OF THREE (17)  Our Life Has to Be Constantly Renewed.

Everyone who begins to study and know their own states is well aware that our experience is a constant dying and rebirth. We must not be frightened as we come to see this, although it is really a terrifying thing that we have no power to keep hold of our life: that it has to be renewed or given back to us by something that does not come from ourselves.

But even when we see the helplessness with which we fall into oblivion, at that moment when we are most trying to hold on to ourselves, we must learn to trust that there is something that calls us back. And if it calls us back from sleep at night, it will call us back from that other sleep into which we shall enter, the sleep f death. J.G.Bennett

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We are called back to life not only in our waking up every morning,  but also during the day in our every breath and heart beat.   And upon our continue arising, according Thomas Keating, we become necessary players in the play of live or in the spiritual play: "just by the very nature of our birth (or our new arising), we are on the spiritual journey." and in this spiritual journey "God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us."  The idea of God's evolution is striking.

The above paragraph evokes the idea God's action in our-his life.  We know that the source of the action we are referring in this reflection,  that enters and sustains every moment of our life is unperceived.  We know that the 3rd force in the Law of Three is invisible to the ordinary eye but leaves its mark in the world of time and space for us to be perceived.  Time accompanies us during all our lives, its action being printed in our bodies.   Yet we have never seen time itself.  

It helps to reflect on the triad of time-space-eternity.  The three forces signal distinct sources of action.  We are unaware of actions coming form the dimension of eternity.  Yet actions beyond our power and control are taking place every moment.   One such action that takes place everyday, which comes a source other that ourselves,  is waking up and falling asleep :   We can neither put ourselves to sleep nor wake ourselves up by ourselves.