The Final Act on Ontology

I thought about the ontology narrative this morning and decided I needed to move on. Understanding our ontology and its implications, I need to move on and discover where this revelation will lead me. It would be easy to ruminate on the thought, even to the point of being bogged down on the guilt of the disclosure that we are not just greedy and selfish, but we are sin in the flesh—got to move on and explore the freedom in Christ being offered.

So, where now? I conversed with my lady friend this morning, and we both revealed that this is a moment to continue the journey of discovering our true self, soul, and person. This is the proverbial hero's journey in the flesh. It is said that the journey to holiness is the journey to finding our true identity. We are connecting our ontology with our Heavenly Father's ontology. And this is an important idea to ponder for a time. Being called to be holy as He is holy is a bold idea. What are we to do with this anyway? Being called to be holy is the call to hitch a ride with God’s ontology.

God’s ontology? The call to holiness is meeting up our ontology with God’s ontology. I came across this idea recently and remembered it like it was yesterday. 

Many times reading Merton and Benner and others, this idea of our true self is only to be found in pursuing our relationship with our Heavenly Father. It is in discovering our ontology is what it is, sin, and the process of being transformed by the Holy Spirit, resolving our old man and becoming our true self, the new man. 

This is the basics of what God has been speaking to his creation. And that is simply that we are fallen and need a messiah to find our way back. Back to what? Back to a genuinely functioning, loving, joyful human being operating in His grace and mercy, with the Holy Spirit leaning in and operating in your life. What else could a person want? Yet we have free will to decide for ourselves what we want, which usually goes the way of greed and selfish wants.

So we continue to make our way in our journey to learning who our true self is, and we happen to be journeying together as brothers and sisters in Christ, and as friends. We have our own lives to live, but we choose to build a relationship that offers the other validation, correction, and encouragement. We have discovered“creative dialogue” to engage regularly with vulnerability to each other. And we are finding ourselves moving out of the “fog” of familial dysfunction and pain to joy and healing. What else could a guy want?

Well, this may be the conclusion of many years of fellowship and becoming. At least writing about it. We’ll see. Maybe, it has only begun.