If anything matters enough to cause guilt, it is only because we ask it to. If forgiveness is complete absolution from everything we did or could do wrong, than there is no more encompassing language for forgiveness than meaninglessness. And there is no greater expression of meaninglessness than freedom to create meaning. That is the paradox of grace and works. But meaning created post grace is different. This new meaning is sparse and jocular, worthy and motley, but never needed. Wanted often, but needed only in passing. The best thing is to be, and to be in return. But man is impatient and soon after grace he pledges allegiance to other men's ideas of purpose. He can not infallibly maintain any of these standards, and so, there is guilt. Grace the second time is hard to understand. The nagging lust for sustained meaning will keep wise men thinking progress is a necessity and direction has ultimate value. But what if progress would be better flowing out instead of growing up and what if at the end of progress there was nothing to be desired. What if life simply expands and contracts, simultaneously, and in tightly coiled rings.
Perhaps progress is a mixture of fatalism and the humble mothering of intention. And what about the earth, the only agreeable universal opinion, the thing that can be smelled, felt, seen, heard and tasted. The only meaning not created, just discovered in pieces. When approaching the earth it is helpful to note that meaningless is naturally humble not exploitive. To dwell in meaningless takes courage, a kind that can't be found but must be accepted. | 
