Schrödinger's Cat

Watch the clip below.

That was the episode I saw when I first learned about Schrödinger's cat and they explained it far better than I ever could.

I find it very fascinating. So I will make three points on it.

First, we like boxes don't we?

I mean, humanity always seems to put parameters on things so that we are able to define it and interpret it in our minds. But then when something happens that is outside of these defined boundaries. We call it, "outside of the box." Something that is not normal, not ordinary, not comprehended. And when we meet this "outside of the box" thing we are blown away at it's beauty and majesty.

But why do we like boxes?

I think it is because the box is comfortable, safe, and secure. It's normal. All of our lives we've been told what to do, what not to do, to go to school, to find a mate, and so on and so forth. We seemed to be put into a box and have made it hard to reach out of it. When someone does seem to go outside-the-box it seems they're either worshiped or persecuted.

Second, I feel like we put God and all His attributes in a box.

I believe we do this in other aspects of life too. I've been told that understanding God's love is too hard for the human mind to fathom and I believe that is true. So much we try to put it into a science, into a box, and then something comes along that blows that box away and we try to define it again with another box. To reach and understand God's love is downright impossible. Words can't define it.

In Blue Like Jazz it talks about how we associate words with things such as friendship or cancer. It talks about how we use war metaphors for cancer like fight and battle and how we make it seem impossible to overcome it. This must make cancer patients feel good about their chances. Then it talks about friendship, how we value and invest in people. We put friendships in a economic box.

Third, you have to open the box in order to find out the truth.

The wordage, "waking up" has become such a buzz word to me that whenever I hear it I think of Greg Boyd and God. Weird, right? The best note I have ever received from someone says the words, "Matt! wake up!" It was because I was almost falling asleep in class but that buzz word popped out at me, so I kept it.

It's a rare sight to see but sometimes I see that moment of enlightenment where somebody "wakes up" and realizes the truth. Where they realize that God's love is infinite, and that infinite is really big. I think that is when their box breaks.

In my own life I'm trying to break the box. I'm trying to be more outgoing, almost more awkwardly-friendly to people. I try to say, "hello" to people in the hallways at an audible level. I'm trying to break out of that box, trying to become more like Jesus. I think Jesus was out of the box.

I'm trying to take more chances, or at least riskier chances. I mean, I'm not life-threatening challenges or anything like that. I'm just stepping out a little from my comfort zone.

It's scary and uncomfortable, but totally worth it.