It's just plain dirt

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Last night after I went to bed I started meditating about dirt. Yes, just plain old dirt. I don’t know why or where this subject of meditation came from, but the meditation came back this morning. I had intended to write the mediation down, but the day was busy and time got away from me. I may try to write my thoughts down tomorrow if I can remember.

The gist of ‘plain old’ dirt is that dirt is far from ordinary. It is the stuff of the universe, the very same substance that The Lord chose to create all things from, including Adam and Eve, you and me. The very dirt that you drag into your houses or the dust on your TV, is cosmic and supernatural. We too are supernatural because we are from God, of God.
There was much more to ponder. Does any of thsi make sense? Peace.
 
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Last night after I went to bed I started meditating about dirt. Yes, just plain old dirt. I don’t know why or where this subject of meditation came from, but the meditation came back this morning. I had intended to write the mediation down, but the day was busy and time got away from me. I may try to write my thoughts down tomorrow if I can remember.

The gist of ‘plain old’ dirt is that dirt is far from ordinary. It is the stuff of the universe, the very same substance that The Lord chose to create all things from, including Adam and Eve, you and me. The very dirt that you drag into your houses or the dust on your TV, is cosmic and supernatural. We too are supernatural because we are from God, of God.
There was much more to ponder. Does any of thsi make sense? Peace.
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Catholics teaching is that the Trinity created all from nothing, and that what is created is not supernatural in nature, but that God gives supernatural gifts. So dirt is not supernatural.

We become divinized by way of union or participation, but not by nature; we are not supernatural but natural in our nature.
 
I am sure you are correct yet we know that even cosmic dust comes from God. Peace.
 
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I am sure you are correct yet we know that even cosmic dust comes from God. Peace.
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There are some philosophies that are contrary to the Catholic faith, and Vatican I decrees clarified this teaching about them at Vatican I, for example:
  1. If anyone says that the substance or essence of God and that of all things are one and the same:
    let him be anathema.
  2. If anyone says that finite things, both corporal and spiritual, or at any rate, spiritual, emanated from the divine substance; or that the divine essence, by the manifestation and evolution of itself becomes all things or, finally, that God is a universal or indefinite being which by self determination establishes the totality of things distinct in genera, species and individuals: let him be anathema.
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I will look at it. I have Vat. 11 Documents. I would never define ‘dirt’ as divine, but unexplainable as to the minute origin of dirt. But I am open to learning and learn more about my Church every day. Peace.
 
Hi Mary 🙂
I garden a lot .My soil here is clay loam and I have to work hard at improving it to grow plants successfully.
I add compost,work it over …add minerals also to make it friable and fertile.
If I stop improving it every year it would eventually go back to heavy clay loam and not produce the vegetable and flowers that I try and grow.
I often reflect when I’m out there working,that it’s a real labour of love…and very similar in a way to interior
life…we can’t afford to stand still and not keep learning about our faith,ease up on the praying or we revert to long before we made that conscious effort to love God more fully.
Something like that .

(a different train of thought I know)
 
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I will look at it. I have Vat. 11 Documents. I would never define ‘dirt’ as divine, but unexplainable as to the minute origin of dirt. But I am open to learning and learn more about my Church every day. Peace.
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The precise origin of dirt is a compound made from materials produced by the Trinity, and that there was no material out of which the original product was made.
 
I have no idea what the Catholic teaching regarding dirt nor any other substance of the universe. I will say that pondering, meditating on dirt seems like a very worthwhile activity and have chosen to join you in the endeavor.
 
To garden is to be in a sense, co-creators with the Master Gardener, a really good time to meditate.

Christ was praying in the garden when the Roman soldiers came for Him. His blood, sweat, and tears were and are, the source of our own growing, fertile gardens. Don’t think we are the power behind the plow because we are not; we follow the strength and intent of the One who pulls the plow. Peace.
 
I think Vico may have misunderstood what I was trying to say about ‘dirt.’ Vico is right in his scientific and theological understanding of ‘dirt’ and he is right of course. Steven Hawkins with his brilliant mind could only carry his understanding of creation so far in the realm of theory. I think he went as far as any human could. I don’t think we can ever know the answers to what the 'String Theory or ‘God Particles’ is or actually are. It is beyond the human scope. There is no finite answer.
Thus I will be content with my odd little meditation about ‘dirt.’ “From dust thou cometh to dust thou returneth.” Peace
 
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