The thing about relationships is that they are ever-changing. They seem to be stable or stuck, but they are actually a series of forces which are ever-moving, not unlike the forces that act on the tectonic plates, of which our earth is made up. These forces push and pull and make up what we see on an everyday basis, but they are nearly imperceptible. Sometimes they erupt, and we witness catastrophe or great beauty. More often, however, they exert their subtle effect on the world around us and, over time, produce the shape of the landscape far and wide.

The world is full of relationships. There are not only the relationships between the billions of people who inhabit the earth at any one time (not to mention their relationships with those who have gone before), there are also our relationships with the world around us which make up the broader ecosystem and the solar system, which is it’s own complex system of moving parts, and all of it works together to form one finely tuned machine. There are millions of systems which make up a larger system, and in that way, our world seems infinitely complex. None of us can fathom the inner workings of just one of these systems, let alone grasp how each of them interact with one another or how the sum of them behaves. This simple truth speaks to the existence of a Creator, one who holds all together and is able to grasp and be at ease with all the intricacies of an infinitely complex and expanding universe.

There have been many who have tried to explain one of these systems, without being able to sum it up in its entirety. It has been said that even the simplest organism is far too complex for man to create. We can neither understand, design, nor manage such complexity. The devices we have made that mimic biological phenomena are far simpler and much less reliable than those which occur naturally, speaking to our limits as creators. The Creator is far more beautiful and potent. 

These forces of push and pull that effect change in our world seem all but random, yet as we know from chaos theory, there is an underlying order that defines the apparent chaos. The order is just far too complex for us to see without deep examination. All of this seems effortless, since it remains day by day, without cataclysmic results. It would seem, if it was not all under control of some outside force, it would fall apart and be rent undefinable. This is not so. There is order underlying the apparent disorder.