October 16th 2022: Grounded in Life Through a Process of Becoming
Last week's theme is Grounded in Life Through a Process of Becoming Change can be hard. There is no doubt about it. Still, we live in times of perpetual change what with the digital age and the constant flux thrust upon us by two and half years of this ongoing pandemic. When we ponder if the change is good it must be said that it depends on the nature of the change. Sometimes change is for the better sometimes not. But good or bad, change is going to come. In fact, philosopher Alfred North Whitehead held that change IS reality. In his work Process and Reality Whitehead presented reality not as the objects around us, but instead as the moments we experience. What matters is experience. Instead of a reality being comprised of things Whitehead posits a reality comprised of moments and no moment is the same. We are at least slightly different in each moment. The world is at least slightly different in each and every moment. The world is changing all the time. It can be no other way. Without change evolution and growth would be impossible and there would be no life. In a very real way, change is Grounded in Life.