
Before moving to Sarasota for middle school and high school, I spent my childhood until I was 13 growing up in a very small town called Columbus, Indiana. Very small town with very small population but known for its interesting architecture and art work.
There is a huge abstract metal piece of art that stands in the middle of the mall there. It’s a big machine that runs without power 24/7, a skeleton of tunnels and slides with a big wrecking ball inside constantly moving around, looking like it is tearing down the walls and coils of the machine as it goes… but as you continue to watch you find the wrecking ball is actually just keeping the machine on track. In fact without it, the piece would cease to exist.
At first I thought maybe I was reading too much into this piece. But years later, as an adult, I discovered the artist had named it “Chaos.”
They have since torn the mall down and are actually building a hotel there now. But that piece of art is so powerful it has remained covered and they are building the hotel around it. …No one can touch “Chaos,” huh? You can’t move it from where it’s supposed to be.
But the “chaos” in the machine is just an illusion and I can assure you such is also the case in life, though I can’t always see it as easily as I did as a child standing back staring at a piece of art from afar.
Still, I believe if I could stand back and see my own life from afar, removed from the situations, I would then see what feels like chaos to me in my life to be the same.
What we experience as the wrecking balls in life are only there to shift the paradigm of the machine so it all stays on track heading to an ultimate destination unknown.
When we can’t see a reason for such destruction, when we can’t find the light in the dark, when we are helpless to see the order in chaos… we must remember that it’s not our job to know or understand. In fact, it’s really none of our business.
Our only job is to have faith in the creator of the machine.
And to keep it moving.
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