I don’t know anything about electrical engineering. I think I maybe did a project in a high school science class that involved creating a circuit board. But I really don’t know anything other than that very basic set of ideas about a network through which electricity flows, and a whole array of possibility of gates, amplifiers, mufflers and transmitters that can allow this flow to do AMAZING things. Because I don’t know almost anything about electrical circuits, but I am certain that they surround me all the time.

A well-worn part of a spiritual life is making peace with things you don’t know and embracing mystery. But just as important is discovering and understanding mysterious things, and making meaning out of what you find. And fortunately, some fun German engineering-educators have made all kinds of videos, like this one, to bring some clarity to it:

While trying to learn about electricity and specifically electrical resistors, what I have ALSO learned is that pretty much no one has tried to make much spiritual meaning out of electrical engineering. But here we are in a month where resistance is our theme, and here’s this thing that quite literally surrounds us like a divine aura. And part of how we interface with that ever-present flow is through resistors that insulate and regulate it. Power is always flowing. It requires resistance to be channeled into something like a circuit, something that puts it to use.

All of this is to say, I don’t know what we can learn from an electrical circuit and from the way that part of how it is able to work is through resistance. But, maybe a lot. Maybe more than we expect.

Sometimes it is hard to tap into our spiritual selves or find time to nurture our creativity and intellectual curiosity. Here is a section that reflects on some nourishing materials from around the web and related media channels in order to get us thinking, get us feeling, and get us reflecting on the lives we are living in this big world. **Some Adult/Mature Themes May Appear in Links and Other Attached Material**

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Allan T. Georgia, MDiv, MTS, PhD