INTRODUCTION I have written a book in praise of the splendid chaos of life, the chaos that saves us from the fate of clones and robots and opens our way to incredible futures. Chaos is important. Too often the word is used in a negative sense, as if chaos were something which should not exist. But chaos is the power and wisdom and freedom of God in our midst. We need it. By the word \"chaos\" I mean all those random, haphazard happenings, the unpredictable situations in life, the random chances, the rotten luck, the fortuitous events, the uncertainties, coincidences and confusion, the unforeseeable and the uncontrollable. They are the very stuff-of-life that complement the routine expectations of law and order. When chaos occurs people expend their energy in desper- ate attempts at restoring order. Even Church and state do it. We want to have things in control. This at least is a partial mistake. Out of the chaos comes something new and creative, something not planned at all that order and routine could never have delivered. If we are trapped in order, if we have imposed order on ourselves--and therefore inevitably on others--we have choked off life and growth. COntrol we may have, and a false security for a time, but change will find us out. Chaos will not be denied. Chaos offers the possibility of a choice. It is an expression of the world s freedom-to,be. It should be celebrated, reveled in, and em- braced. Our energy should be directed toward discovering the new creative possibility that might emerge from it if we choose well. Chaos, then, is something positive. It is not evil, such as the moral evil of sin. Evil is opposed to order and destroys it. Chaos
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