Ecclesiaties 7:29 “This alone is my conclusion: God has created man straightforward, and human artifices are human inventions.” (The Jerusalem Translation)
According to Merriam-Webster an artifice is:
1 a : clever or artful skill : ingenuity <believing that characters had to be created from within rather than with artifice — Garson Kanin> b : an ingenious device or expedient
2 a : an artful stratagem : trick b : false or insincere behavior <social artifice>
Maybe a David E translation of this passage would be…”life is simple, but we complicate it.”
Transformation then, must be a return to the simple.
I think the simplest way to understand life is that it is not ours. We did not create it. We are dependent for birth, breath, heartbeat…and when we move away from an understanding of dependence…things get complicated.
Posted under Transformation
This post was written by David E on March 7, 2010
