How in the heck, I ask you, can things on this planet be so incredibly sensational?  For the past four days, I have stood in awe of our world.  Not only the physical part of our surroundings.  In this…. our mutual home.   But also the spiritual aspects.  The two are connected, I think.

In Physics, one of the laws…. a big stinking ONE of the laws…..  states that energy can neither be created, nor destroyed.

If I may bore you for just one moment… please.  This is how it follows.

The Law of Conservation of Energy was first formulated in the nineteenth century.  To you and me… that is in the 1800s.  Again… this is a LAW of Physics.

It basically…. very basically….. states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant over time.

So what does this mean?  Again… it is barest explanation:  The total energy is said to be conserved over time. So…… for an isolated system…. this law means that energy can CHANGE its LOCATION within the system.  AND that energy can also CHANGE FORM within the system.  But it can’t be Houdini and disappear.

Like… if you think of “scientific nomenclature”…..  you would say that chemical energy can become kinetic energy.  BUT…. THAT ENERGY can be neither created nor destroyed.  So red energy can become blue energy… but it cannot be NO energy.

Okay… I’m finished with the Physics.  So we, as people… are really just a form of energy within this greater system.  So are trees, and rocks, and birds, and dogs…. and house flies.  And when the physical body dies, it decays… and turns into other things…

But it is the spiritual energy that can’t really be measured very well.  So where does it go?  What happens to the energy that is love, and… determination, and will, and courage, and curiosity….. and so on?

That goes where…. and in to what?

I think it persists….  or remains… … or continues…. in other ways, shapes, and forms.

Some of us feel it…. or think we feel it.  Others do not… or think they do not.  Neither, is right or wrong…. I don’t suspect.    But I also suggest….. that OUR energy goes where we want it to.  And every time we make a decision with our current energy… we are making a decision about how it will continue on.

Yes.  Perhaps we choose…. exactly…. what shape and form …..  our energy will be next.

By the things we think, and do, and say… and give.  By the way we choose to live our lives.  What if that is how it goes?

“The greatest gift is a portion of oneself.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson