It seems clear that the conditions God allowed to manifest were available to Him all along. He just allowed them to come into being. He simply let.
Maybe God's approach contains a useful lesson for us. After all, the Bible says we were created by God in His image.
Often we think that the solution to a problem is to "try harder," or "do something different." But the problem may be caused by the manner in which we do things. Doing something else, or trying harder to do the same thing, does nothing about this fundamental issue. Indeed it's quite likely to make matters worse.
This can clearly be seen in the field of human posture. We know that small children carry themselves gracefully, without any apparent effort. However when adults try to make improvements in their posture, they usually make some sort of effort, typically an attempt to "stand up straight". But this just results in a rearrangement of body tensions, often requiring more effort than before.
Could it be that what we really need to do is learn to let go of the habits that get in the way of good posture? To simply let good posture happen?
Curiously enough it was a philosopher named John Dewey who had some of the most insightful things to say on this subject. Dewey was America's most famous philosopher, a leading exponent of the branch of philosophy known as pragmatism. He was also an outspoken intellectual, particularly in the field of educational reform. His ideas were extremely influential in the development of American public educational policies during the first part of the twentieth century. He is sometimes referred to as the "Father of American Education."
We don't normally think of academic philosophers as having a great deal to say about posture. But Dewey had the good fortune to meet a remarkable individual, F. Matthias Alexander, the originator of what today is called the Alexander Technique. Unlike Dewey, Alexander had almost no formal education. He grew up in rural Tasmania, an island off the south coast of Australia in the nineteenth century - truly a distant outpost of the British empire.
