Opus 2026-047: If I Had Been in Charge…

Have you ever had those moments when you were being attacked by mosquitoes or irritated by those little flies that somehow appear in your house and you have either said or thought that if you had been in charge of creation, you would not have included these little pests?  If you’ve never had a thought like that, then you truly are a wonder of creation.

As I was glorying in the incarnation and the mysteries involved, I was thinking about the many areas where God might pat us on the head and say, “We’ll talk about that when you get a little older.”  Then I got to thinking about Job and the conversation he had with God.  God came to that point when He asked Job, “Where were you when I created the universe?”  Of course that’s a bit humiliating to contemplate.

In spite of that I contemplated it.  What occurred to me was how dull and boring the universe would be if I’d been in charge of creation.  You can look at the giant sweep of space, the nebulas, the galaxies, the red dwarfs, and black holes.  Most of this would’ve never occurred to me. Then when you get into the intricacies at the other end of the scale, DNA, mitochondria, our immune system and so much more how simplistic would it have been if I had been the one who had to arrange how it all fits together?  I might have come up with something like evolution.

I’m glad you were not able to create the universe because you might be one of those people that likes liver and onions.  You might be somebody that likes contemporary worship.  I can think of all kinds of reasons why I wouldn’t want you creating the universe.  You should be glad that I could not create the universe because you would not have the glory of truly well done steaks and the complexity of the harmonies you find in modern hymns when they are played well.  Picture what autumn in Vermont would look like if someone with my color limitations had been programming it.

Sometimes it’s just better to accept things as they are.

homo unius libri