Life is a Work in Progress [FLAU 37]

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Life is a Work in Progress

By Vivienne Legg

During my life I have been preoccupied with accomplishing various goals, always focussing on the completion but being

impatient with the process. In other words, I have been disrespecting the evolutionary reality. Included in this is

disrespecting my own true function as a human being and assessing myself negatively for being a mere work in progress.

It seems to have taken me this long to finally begin to appreciate that life is not only the accomplishment of the goal, but

also development, mistakes, down time and the necessary passing away to make way for the new.

Why did I have that erroneous view which demonstrates a profound degree of inattentiveness to reality? No doubt it

comes from the religious teaching of perfection – the biblical God, Jesus, and God’s Creation are supposedly perfect,

thus unchanging. Therefore they would have no need for the process of development. We were taught to ‘be like (the

perfect) Jesus’. Meanwhile the sinner was always found wanting because of his/her failings. So failings were not

accepted as necessary guideposts to the next step in the evolutionary path but were frowned upon. Then in the Christian

Heaven one finds eternal life where, by necessity, nothing changes.

How at odds this is with what we can learn by observing nature and from the Creation-energy teaching, which says,

“… that the life as well as the BEING are, from the very beginning of all existence, integrated into an absolutely immortal

and continual, endless striving for all the immeasurable duration of time. … But also included in that is the teaching of

the becoming and passing and of the becoming again in endless series, right into all the all-great-time of the Absolute

Absolutum.” (The Way to Live, p.122)

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