A friend once called me “the king of re-framing.” I just see this as taking any experience or situation and making sense of it through the frame of my world view, my most basic assumptions about the world. I strongly suspect that Albert Einstein nailed it with what he viewed as the most important question facing humanity: “Is the universe a friendly place?” I say “Yes.” His assessment of how we answer this question is quoted after the poem…
Re-framed?
Wear experiencing
Loss, pain, or sadness
I sow covet
What may be
Due
Reframing my perspective
Expanding to the largesse possible
At times doing a 360
Still
In the same plays
Yet feeled as sow much amor
And if fortune truly peers
Granted real eyes
There is no frame at awe
Soully a surpassing grace
Beyond my own
Dreaming
Albert Einstein put it this way:
“I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.
“For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all that which is unfriendly and I believe that we are getting to a place where technology is powerful enough that we may either completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process.
“If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially ‘playing dice with the universe’, then we are simply victims to the random toss of the dice and our lives have no real purpose or meaning.
“But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding that universe. Because power and safety will come through understanding its workings and its motives.”
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
