Oh! Gravity!

Gravity, by the law of physics, is so important to everyone’s daily life. With gravity, you can know for sure that your phone, watch, cup, backpack, and your alarm clock are at where you left them last night. With gravity you can drink water out of a bottle (without the liquid floating all over the place..). my Arch. Engr. Perspective tells me that gravity holds your house down… so it won’t float in space. That’s pretty important right? Gravity is… essential to normal life. This gravity we live by is called G force, it pulls us to the center of the earth. Literally. It grounds us to the ground we are on.

I think, this G force gravity, not only ground us to the ground physically, sometimes even mentally. Not literally, but you will see what I mean. We are humans, we need to live on food, shelter, cloths, stuff etc. This bounds our thoughts on things in front of us, we think about our survival needs. When I look at my day to day life, I see that I often live life following the G force law. I am grounded to the earth, and think about what I need to do to survive and thrive as a human being.

It’s not a bad life. After all, how are we supposed to maintain a normal life if this fundamental physics law is not true I didn’t think there is otherwise either, until I met Dave.

Dave does everything differently. A father of 5 kids, with a wife as a homeschool teacher, they don’t live with too much. They have the basic, food, shelter and cloths, but there isn’t too much leftover. They have one car, one TV, and one bathroom. I don’t even know does any of his kid have an iPod as presents. But when he finds out someone has a financial problem, he jumps right in to help. When someone needs to talk, he is there. When someone wants to play basketball, he is there. I mean, Dave is qualified to be my grandpa, and he plays basketball with my peer (and make better shots too). When someone needs love, he gives it unconditionally. He lives like his needs are not more important than your needs. What a selfless man. Anyone knows him know having Dave as a friend is like having an angel in your contact list. He doesn’t boast how different his life is, he just simply said it’s the life God made for him. So he “happens” to be a Christian, but it’s not the title “Christian” he is living by. He lives by the Jesus gravity, the kind that grounds him to the center of Jesus heart.

The Jesus gravity, or J force, does exactly what G force gravity does, except with a totally different direction. In a way, it looks so radical, so out of nowhere from here, but it is absolutely safe, grounded as it can be from there. The life of Christian is never about fitting in, and it can look too freaky, or too scary. Well, that is true, if you are viewing it from the G force perspective. When you are living by the J force, this lifestyle comments by the man himself is the safest, most harmony kind of life.

So how do you go from here to there? That is a question of your willingness, I still am praying for that.