As a child, I was introduced to the Christian belief in their God and accepted it for a while until I witnessed some serious shortfalls in doing so as I grew older. During the same period, due to my parents enjoyment of nature, I saw some remarkable things that nature offered mankind. The foundation for my movement from one to the other was nature”s unpredictable side. The fact that when mankind tried to control it, it was not always successful to the point of sometimes being smacked alongside the head for trying to. Then there were the daily views of the powers of nature, its amazing creations and all its hidden wondrous qualities of many of its plants, etc., and how it adapted to a changing world, that it could and did do. Darwin”s thoughts and views made sense to me.
These were very powerful examples that even a young mind could see and understand. Man”s earliest history and evidence of the life that was here before man, proven facts, all fit the laws of nature. I could understand so many things based on proven facts that to do otherwise made me feel far less comfortable in answering so many of my questions that my young mind brought to me. All of our minds work differently and our learning of life is influenced by our capacity to learn, our parents, peers, general knowledge of our time, etc.
Over time, we put together our own agenda of importance as to what we are as people. It is our personal inner-knowledge of what we are that becomes what is our driving force in life overall. Few close to us truly know our inner-being.
As we get older, we live what our inner-beings foundation has made of us and this era has allowed for more of a true view of who we are to those close around us. I think this is a good thing.
I share these thoughts and feelings in hopes that others may share their own with others on a subject that has been felt by most of us in our lifetimes.
Jim Hall
Clearlake Oaks
