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As part of a recent book I read, which had a quote from G.K. Chesterton which paraphrased comes to

Look at the ordinary until it becomes extraordinary again

I believe there are A WHOLE LOAD of things that we overlook as ‘ordinary’, when in fact they are if anything ‘extra-ordinary’. The basic question of ‘why things are the way they are’ helps us to see God’s creation with wider eyes, and therefore more awe for it’s Creator.

One of my recents thoughts is this -

Why is it we have just one manifold of experience?

How is it that whenever we wake up in the morning, we don’t forget everything that happened the day before?

Why is it that despite of millions of millions of changes - physical, psychological and mental - that I am the ‘same person’ when I die, as when I was born. My emotions, and experiences are all part of ‘one’ experience, one being, one manifold with hundreds of features of expression and self-cognition. I don’t have hundreds of individual experiences that are seperate from one another so much that there is no continuation from one to the other - instead all these individual instantiations (moments in time) make up the manifold of my experience which is held together by a more concrete concept of ‘being’.

In short - why does my “I” continue from today to tomorrow?

It’s another gift from God that we can remember, that we have order in thought, that we have an idea of ‘Me’ as different from ‘You’ or different from ‘It’, that my experiences stay with me, that I can conceived of myself, that I have ‘self-awareness’, that I am autonomous, that my thoughts are ‘mine’…

You see really, there is a lot that we overlook as ordinary, when in fact it’s extraordinary.

Now the question is - Why God made us this way.

Only for the King

Jx