The Health of Destruction
The other night, or should I say early morning, when I should have been sleeping, I found myself wide awake. I decided to turn on a movie, which usually helps to put me back to sleep. So I jumped online to Netflix, and started watching “Outsourced”. I’d never even heard of it before (except for I have occassionally seen the sit-com that has been airing this year).
The movie is about an American guy who has to go to India to train a call center because they have just recently been outsourced. As I’m dozing in and out through the movie, a scene stuck out to me. The two main characters are in a taxi cab in India. The American notices that the taxi driver has a figure of the Kali, the goddess of destruction, on the dashboard.
“Why would you want the goddess of destruction in your car?” he asks. His friend replies,
“Sometimes destruction is a good thing. She ends one cycle, so a new one can begin.”
I’m not at all professing belief in this goddess. I do not believe in her. I do, however, recognize some Truth evident in those statements…even as a Christian. So many times in life (not even just personal life, but also communal, government, etc.) the destruction of one cylce must happen for growth to occur.
For me, my divorce was agony. It was not only the destruction of my marriage, but the destruction of a lot of the things that were driving factors in my life. Things that I thought were good, but I realized were not healthy.
So my marriage destructed, but new life emerged. I’m thinking about the very first post I made to this blog, entitled “Rebirth”. There’s a cool picture there and a quick note about how rebirth is occuring after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
I also watched Craig Ferguson last night and his interview with Dr. Cornel West. Craig thought the interview would be about black history month, but Dr. West described it as discussing humanity’s struggle, regardless of skin color. A great interview, that touched a bit on destruction, and the healing that comes aftward. It is a late night show, with some portions that may be inappropriate, so I won’t post the links here…but it is a very interesting interview.
What do you think?
Does something good ALWAYS come from destruction? Is there ANY good that comes from destruction? Are there any cycles that you need to break, so that new cycles can begin?
Let me know…
