Every being is inherently connected with any other being within the ambit of God’s creation. Such a connection is so essential that a chain effect is established with or even without knowing how things go about on the part of each created entity.
To each his, her or its own? Yes and no. But the truth remains, everything is in the hands of God.
Truth to tell, this is illustrated in the first parable from today’s Gospel reading about the seed that grows by itself (Mark 4:26-29). This is one powerful dimension of Divine Providence. It’s also about connection, linkage, involvement, interconnectedness, convergence, unity or oneness, communion, community, and more.
But how come there are things beyond our grasp? Why are there so many things happening even without our knowing it?
The answer lies in this one significant truth — in fact the very first article — we profess in our Faith: “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible” (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed).
“..of things visible and invisible” provides the matrix for such a web and networking of all created realities.
Some things happen without our knowing them how and even why, because God wants us to realize and appreciate His wondrous and marvelous designs in all of creation.
This is a way of regaining and enhancing our sense of wonder as it diminishes through time, as we continue to age.
However, we cannot discount the fact that people also do things clandestinely. We play tricks. Truth is obscured somehow in many different manners, ways and means. We love to keep secrets. We even twist so many things. Most of all, we ignore so much, and we do not even care at all. And not just plainly ignoring matters, because we are also sometimes ignorant ourselves, or simply uninformed — innocence is a totally different issue here.
Moreover, our negative responses and reactions to unity, communion, oneness, and our propensity to get detached and uninvolved in so many ways to so many different things also explain why and somehow we are left hanging about how and why things happen this or that way.
The most tragic part is when we are so self-absorbed, or alienated from reality, or in our excessive pride we think that we already know it all. And the saddest side to this is incorrigibility.
Fact is, the gift of the sense of wonder goes hand in hand with humility in acknowledging that we cannot know everything.
We may not know how, but we can be taught and informed. We can also inquire.