Can
a human, a creature, really own some other created thing? I don't
mean in the sense of human governments and laws. I mean an intrinsic,
durable ownership. The stuff we usually think we own can rot, can be
taken from us, can be made obsolete, can be spoiled, ruined or
destroyed. Or we might die, and our stuff continues on in space and
time. Further, how can we be sure we are not the ones who are, in
fact, owned by "our" stuff? In all these exigencies, what
happened to our being the ones who own things? To truly own
something, mustn't the owner be something qualitatively greater,
something that transcends, that which is owned? We humans are made of
the same stuff, subject to the same physical laws, as the things we
like to think we own. What human being, then, really owns anything?
There
is One, of course, Who is greater than us and the things around us,
Who made us and all
things.
He is the One Who can truly own ... without being owned ... neither
spoiling nor spoiled.
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