In a fractal universe, every event has a deeper meaning

It's Easter morning, and in addition to the obvious meaning of the events of 2000 years ago documented in the Gospels, and the first level interpretation of the spiritual meaning of those events, my prayer time this morning revealed another level in the fractal of Easter and the Good Friday events.

First, the big take away. There are no coincidences in a Created fractal universe, only layers of meaning to be discovered. 

The events surrounding Palm Sunday, the last supper, the betrayal, Gethsemane, the judgment, the crucifixion, the tearing open of the curtain in the Temple to reveal the Holy of Holies, the resurrection...all fulfilments of prophecies hundreds of years old made by people unaware of the others, separated by both time and distance yet coalescing from seeming chaos into the ordered events of Passion Week in a way only an ordered, fractal, complex, Created universe could produce. 

Each event of that week had a meaning beyond the obvious concrete real time happening and was not just a random event. For me, the rending of the curtain in the Temple to reveal the inner room that was permitted only for priests to enter and contained the Ark of the Covenant came to mind this morning in my prayer time along with the insight I shared just above. Yes, the rending of the curtain at the moment of Jesus death meant that God was now available to everyone directly, not just through a priest. But at a deeper level, it was another example that seemingly unconnected events, separated by physical distance and seemingly miraculous, were part of a fractal pattern of meaning that is woven into the very nature of our created universe. Seemingly unconnected events, we call them coincidence, are never unconnected in a fractal universe; the meaning is present but not obvious at the present experienced level of the fractal we are living at the moment. 

For secular nonbelievers, the Universe is a collection of random events with no deeper meaning. Creation occurs out of nothing. Evolution occurs out of random adaptations in a random universe. Jesus is just another Jewish rebel fighting the oppression of the Romans, not God in human form sent to redeem a sinful world before and after his time on earth. There is no meaning only randomness without purpose. Life is an accident and death is the end of life. Period. Clean, logical, and completely contrary to all the evidence that surrounds us.

As I have been relearning lately, love is a choice. God chose to love us because it is his very nature. God is love. And His decison to create a universe in His image, a fractal universe, was His choice too, and that made choice a feature, not a bug, in His fractal creation.

Choice is a feature of the fractal universe. As those of us who cannot accept the apparently randomness of the universe on the surface of events have discovered, randomness is a surface feature. At a deeper level, every apparently random event has a connection to the larger pattern and a meaning that can be discovered.  And that meaning is shaped by expectations and choices of the participant/observers, so there is always more than one meaning that is true. 

And for every meaning, there is a purpose. That is also a feature of the created fractal universe. For every created being with a soul who asks the question "why am I here?", the answer is found in the life of Jesus. We are all created with the same purpose, to serve. The infinite pattern of the created universe means that we each have a unique way to serve that is a purpose meant only for us, but we all share the same underlying purpose that Jesus lived: loving is service to others.

I must admit that I have taken that lesson too far; I served others at a level that was not loving to me, and obscured parts of my real meaning and purpose. That too was a choice made unknowingly and lived unconsciously until recently. But another level of the meaning of the resurrection and a part of our created fractal universe is this lesson: death is not the end and new life (resurrection) is a feature of creation. We all have the ability to let a unhealthy part of us die, and after a period of apparent death, recreate/resurrect a new, healthier part to a new life. 

We live in a created universe where resurrection is a feature and a death is never the end. Happy Resurrection Day!