The Struggle of Dust Pt. III

So if we can't use science to give life meaning, then what about ideals such as love, peace, the pursuit of happiness?

If we look at our culture, we find these ideals being expressed through the disciplines we have discussed in the previous part. Especially in music! But are we to use the Arts as an illustration for what our general culture really cries out and yearns for? Because if we do, then there is our answer for why we aren't suppose to look for these ideals to define meaning for us.

These ideals were created to have a foundation. If we preach these ideals to be the answer without any sort of foundation, then they become transformed and manipulated as we see in the Arts.

For instance, if love is the answer for meaning in life, then why is it expressed through the disciplines as lust and indulgence in sensual satisfaction outside of the sanctity of marriage? Why does it portray the degradation of women as being love?

If power is the answer, then why is it expressed as a manipulation of the weak and poor? Why is it expressed as the collection of money for selfish gain?

And if peace is the answer, then why is it portrayed in so many different lenses? Why isn't it expressed as being one core ideal achieved through one way? And most of the times (at least what I see), why isn't it expressed at all? We see peace become meshed together with ideals of love and power, which say, if we fall in love then there will be peace or if we obtain power then there will be peace.

There is no peace within the wandering heart. Through the disciplines it is as if we have forced down the real reticent cries of our heart- cries for significance and for foundation. 

We are but dust wandering the air longing for a foundation to give us significance. This foundation we long for is not defined by abstract ideals or science. But rather, it is defined by being greater than us. In being dust, we find our significance by resting on the foundation that is bigger than us.

For me, all I am is defined by my foundation in Christ. I wish not to commit forgery on the signature of life by claiming it as my own. And when all eyes are on me, I wish not to commit perjury by living like it is. And now as you read this, I wish not to commit plagiarism by claiming this work as my own, but rather as literature inspired by the One who gave me meaning.