Here’s a question I’d love to see some response on: What’s your spiritual/religious end game?
What do I mean? Well, for example, some people’s end game will be “to get to heaven”. Others’ might be to save people. Yet others still may have an end game entirely different altogether.
So, what’s your end game…and perhaps more importantly, WHY?
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Don Rogers on his blog Reflections has VERY insightful thoughts, like this one:
“An angry, vindictive God gives life to angry, vindictive religions, which in turn gives life to angry, vindictive people”
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Sam Davidson, of CoolPeopleCare.org answers this age old question in a clever video post. Check it out.
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“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
~Abraham Lincoln
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It makes me sad to hear people say things like, “God spared me from that tornado”.
Of course, the same statement can be applied to any disaster, natural or otherwise. Why does it make me sad? Because the implication is that “God” did NOT spare those people who lost their lives, homes, family, etc.
And so I pose some questions:
Can anything other than Good come from God?
If everything “came” from God, than everything is perfectly good, is it not (note that I’m not talking about morally “good”)?
Why would a perfectly “Good”, Loving, Accepting, etc God impart disaster?
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It’s been a rough night in Nashville with all the super-cell storms and tornadoes around.
Luckily, there is always beauty in the chaos…for those who have the eye to see it. This photo proves, once again, that Chris Wage sure does!
Here recently I’ve felt conflict between my mind and my heart.
I believe that the things I feel in my heart, in my gut, in the deep places of who I am–those are the truths.
That said, my conditioning to religious systematics seems to rear its ugly head quite a bit more often than I’d like.
Here’s the cycle I tend to be trapped in:
What a vicious cycle indeed.
Why am I unsatisfied with BEING? Why must I always try to “do, do, do”. Sometimes that even means trying to “learn, learn, learn” or “realize, realize, realize”.
I seem to be in endless pursuit of the next best thing…and I don’t want to be any longer.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
~Leonardo Da Vinci“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler”
~Albert Einstein
Photo is “Freed Heart, Understanding Mind”, by Dale Wicks
It is accompanied by this poem:
The shell no longer does confine
when hearts embrace higher design
Connecting intimately with eternal one
found in the room of midnight sun
No style of speech is found, but praise
A song of peace, the soul does raise
The bars swing open to his temporal dwell
for he sees in this midst, that all is well
A glory that shall never fade
unlike the things that man has made
Deserving of the deepest affection
for it is the key to love’s perfection.
