God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly and inexorably moving towards perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art, both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.
God is working on the evolution of consciousness. Or He himself is the driving power in the center of evolution however the theologists decide on this question. So we can relax: It is not only about ourselves struggling and endeavoring day and night, but for this task there is a higher power working inside of us. And: We, the elements of the creative process do not only have to rely on the driving powers inside of us, but also in our companions on the way and in humanity as a whole.
Why should God want that it is just us, the chosen ones, and not all equally to progress? We simply do not notice the progresses others make on their way because we think they would behave similar to us and only this would be a sign that they are on the road to perfection.
When we see someone sitting on a park bench with legs crossed and blissful gaze, we presumably guess that he is being worked on by higher powers as the old lady who scolds her dog. But why should not also work an inspiration from above inside her and show some miraculous effects which are only hidden from our eyes?
The goal of evolution is not the production of single people to excel by special achievements or talents. This is the illusion of the personalistic level of consciousness. The goal is reached when every human being has developed fully and wholly, that means that everyone has worked off the inner fears and won inner freedom to use for himself and the world.
God has started a gigantic project with the rise of man in the whole of nature (at least in our perspective). Nature carries perfection inside and performs it in all its processes. Somehow, it moves from one moment of perfection to the next one. It does not have to be different to what it is. It is in the same way part of perfection when new species of plants come into existence and old ones disappear, when there are animals which hunt the others and kill them, when earthquakes and volcanic eruptions extinguish huge landscapes and change the whole vegetation.
But the project man is of a different size and caliber. It is about a being equipped with a surplus of reflection and creativity, so there is no innate perfection. Every human being becomes a work of art only when he makes himself to that, or better, when he lets himself evolve what is genuine part in the game. This happens in an intimate conversation and accordance between the upper and the lower part, between the master and his piece of art.
A piece of art gains its shape of perfection only in the process of creation. Whatever was the idea or the plan of the artist in the beginning, will not be what comes out in the end. The piece of art is in permanent dialogue with the artist by asking questions and posing claims, till the stage of perfection is attained in a mutual process of endeavor, and this is similar to the process of creation of man and humanity – in dialogue with the artist who only by feedback realizes how perfection can be and what is still missing.
There is an ongoing exchange happening between man and God and between mankind and God, and this exchange is open-ended. Only during and by this process of communication clarity about the outcome arises. We know about an abstract idea of it (all human beings free of fear and open to love and to the world), but the specific gestalt of this idea has to be refined in every individual process of creation. And it is also the creation which takes part in its own development by sharing and contributing.
Our striving for improvement and the support we receive from the divine power interact and cooperate inseparable. So there is no need to boast about our part in the achievement but a further opportunity to exercise gratitude.
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