Second day of Lent - Humanity

Paintings in Chad said to be about 10,000 years old
Credit David Stanley on BBC news website

 What do we make of the messages that humans have been around for tens of thousands of years?

The BBC recently published an article suggesting that the art work found in an Indonesian cave was 67,000 year old.  The migration of humans from Mongolia into the American continent is put at 15,000 to 20,000 years ago.  Then there is the strange business of the relationship between Homo Sapiens and neandertals.  It's a long way of from the world described by Bishop Ussher in the seventeenth century.

The modern picture of humanity blurs the boundaries between species.  When did humans  start to reach out to their Creator?  When did the special relationship begin.  Humanity, though small in population, lived without books and organised religion far longer than it has with them.

I believe that the nature of the relationship is the same with all people, across all time.  Indeed, the relationship remains will all created things.  

"Ours not to reason why: ours to be and try."  

To accept our existence gratefully, and to try to follow our Creator knowing that although the world can look beautiful and magnificence, it can also flip your boat over and leave you in the ocean to drown, the Creator is good, faithful and true.

16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians3

PRAYER:  I look to you, my creator, as the child realising who their parents actually are.