Do not dissect things too much. By the time you have dissected a living thing you have killed it, and you no longer have the thing that you began with. Take a rose out of the bowl, pull its petal apart, count them, weigh them, measure them, and then, while you will have certain interesting information, you no longer have a rose.
There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the love of God, but feel it. Do not dissect divine intelligence, but realize it. Do not wonder how God can possibly solve this problem, but just watch Him do it in His own way – and He will if you will give Him a chance.
You know that God is Love. So go ahead on that, and do not get theoretical about it.
Do you remember the old verse that says:
A centipede was happy quite,
Until a frog in fun
Said, “Pray, which leg comes after which?”
This raised her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch,
Considering how to run.
The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him: and all the upright in heart shall glory (Psalm 64:10).
To any person who likes to think about things, figure them out and understand how they work, this may seem like strange advice. But we should be clear, this advice does say “do not think, ponder and analyze things” It is saying that we should not let our pondering and analyzing detract from the true experience of God’s love and power. The advice is pointing out that such over-thinking can cause us to miss the forest while looking at all the trees.
Our relationship with God is not at its root, intellectual or analytical. It is intuitive, emotional and spiritual. And while we may someday possess enough knowledge of the universe to fully analyze and quantify God’s power and love, even then it won’t make it one ounce more special or powerful. So, let us accept joy, beauty and love for what it is instead of filling our brain with mind-numbing and paralyzing intellectual exercises. They are vanity and meaningless in the great scheme of things, and most importantly, can inhibit the true proof of God’s power. Love is the best proof of God and it can neither be weighed, measured or quantified.
And for those of us who like to ponder the imponderable, let our musings not detract from our true joy, peace and hope that is found in our gardens more so than in a physics textbook.
In the garden,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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