Creation vs. Constructs

Human beings were designed to be creators. From the beginning the biblical explanation for the creation of the world is that God created the world from nothing. What does it mean to create from nothing. Another way to say nothing is No-Thing. Separate out the parts of the word and we get that No-Thing although the words themselves live in language give us a sense that there were no formulas and certainly no parts to the creation of the universe. More simply because of the mysteries of who God is and how He came to the creation from nothing is ultimately inexplainable to human being for a simple reason that ultimately God is unknowable.
But that the world was created from nothing and was written as such we can begin to distinguish that God created language and gave language to human beings such that they might be in communion with God. Hence the reason for our existence or purpose on this planet which is that God made us for his pleasure and thus to be in communion with him.
Adam and Eve rejected Gods purpose for our life and thus became fallen as they became aware that they had choice. This choice led them to experiment with their curiosities in the realm of knowledge and thus they became aware of their humanity. Here in lies the struggle for all human beings.
Our freedom is slighted or taken away from us every time we turn to the constraints or vices which hold us back from being completely free. For human being this is not easily understood because each human being has his or her own past which generally dictates to human being what their automated response to life will be. Furthermore, this relationship to past experiences equals varying degrees of how we relate to circumstances and situations. Most human beings tend to live in a state of reaction in which very little space is given to situations and circumstances and thus each person is faced with slight or even heavy inner pressure that is carried with them throughout their life. Circumstances may change when a good song comes on or some contact with them-self or another human being frees them from this slight inner pressure which is merely a reaction to a stimulus typically more than not a pattern of their past.
This becomes a human beings life mainly reacting to and from life's experiences, circumstances and past constraints. Furthermore constraints are like the already always patterns which were created either consciously or unconsciously in a human beings past. Typically these constraints are deeply embedded in our thought processes that the constraints become the constructs which we live by day in and day out. We might have moments of relief from such constructs that are actually guiding our life but our natural response has merely been to fall on that which we already know and that which we have knowingly or unknowingly created or constructed.
To get to nothing then is a practice or a discipline in letting go of our constraints and constructs. To let go of patterned ways of being and to be with that inner pressure until we see that we allow this pressure to control us and dictate to us our state of being. Thus it is not our circumstances or anything outside of us that creates our life. It is merely our created way of being either from nothing or from constructs that become that which is.

Writings from a Monastery