facile hair configurations and our philosophical reality

"We weren't designed to live through something rather than attain something." -Donald Miller

A study was conducted on human beings as they physically mature. The author used their own body for the experiment, carefully weighing each limb, inspecting their hands under a microscope and photographing himself with varying facile hair configurations. The study was trying to understand whether our physical bodies said something about our philosophical reality.

Here's the discovery:
Our lives, in story-form, are in a kind of three-act structure, all for the purpose of journey. The first act is birth and a world of self-discovery. The second act is plodding through a long middle in which they are compelled to search for a mate, reproduce and also create stability out of natural instability. The final act seems to be designed for reflection.

"I wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates." The human body is designed to change. It isn't possible to be in complete stasis. The hebrew word used in Genesis 1 was "dasha", which means to produce. We're co-creators, created by a creator, who create. The land, the vegetation was created so it could create for itself. In other words, this story, this world that God created was designed to go somewhere. Another way to put it is tomorrow will be different than today. And we're placed in the middle of it.

Here were his additional findings:
"There is a slide of myself at the beginning of the year and of the new lines on my face that had deepened since. Our interaction with each other, with the outside world, and with intangible elements such as time make us different people every season. People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person. But they aren't."

We were designed by a Creator to live THROUGH something rather than ATTAIN something, and the thing we were meant to live THROUGH was designed to change us.

For me, this is deeply inspiring.