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Journal Entry, 12.11.2019
At this point, Christianity feels like just another religion. One person has a thought and so they slap it into the doctrine and call it right. It makes me sick. I am tired of the varying opinions and the muddled reasonings. I just want to know my God in peace! Why must we complicate things by asking questions we are not meant to know the answers to? If you can find no clear answer, perhaps you are asking the wrong question.
Addiction
Why do we destroy ourselves? Why are we such stubborn creatures that we do not stop the destructive behaviors that we develop out of a desire for wholeness? Why do we think that the act of tearing ourselves apart is going to make us whole? We are fickle creatures. Messing about with pleasure and pain, like a child standing over a hot flame.
Story
If you want to impact the world, if it is within you to change the hearts of men, to bring a contribution to this thing we call society, there is but one thing you must do. Tell your story. Talk about the countless other stories which have influenced your own. It is through story we find the meaning of our lives. Our whole humanity revolves around stories. If you want to change the world tell an honest story.
We do not fall in love. Love is a choice, not a force of gravity.
"If what you sense from God never contains anything that surprises you, you're probably making it up yourself."
- Jan Johnson
Coming into a new season now. I feel at peace with where I am and where I seem to be going.
I wish the same upon you. I pray that you will have peace and contentment in the circumstances of your life. That the mugs of coffee will be strong. The work focused and rewarding. And the time with family and friends would be peaceful and loving.
Is it possible to intentionally better your life without falling into the trap of self-centeredness?
"God never designed your soul to function as master"
Niel T. Anderson, Restored
"The whole aim of Satan is to get self-interest recognized as the chief end of man."
Niel T. Anderson, Restored
"Paparadoxically, only when we surrender completely to God do we have self-control"
Niel T. Anderson, Restored
"We are not called to dispel the darkness; we are called to turn on the light."
Niel T. Anderson, Restored
"I am not the great "I AM," but by the grace of God I am what I am."
Niel T. Anderson, Restored
Life feels so hard. I look around, and everyone else seems to be handling it fine. But then I look back at my bubble of a mind with bouncy balls for lines of thought, and I cannot comprehend how I have stayed awake this long. My mind is in a haze, and I cannot find the edge of the fog.
Saturday, December 28, 2019, 1:48pm, while working on my final paper for Christian Faith.
Life is so fast. I had forgotten what it felt like to be overwhelmed by responsibility. What the weight of sadness on my forever running soul felt like. It hurts. It is so heavy and I can hardly stand but for some reason I am still running. Is this what the world does to us? We move and move and move and it doesn't let us stop. Ever. I feel like I figured this out once before but I can't remember the answer. Is that all life is? Just one test after another? Never knowing the right answer, just hoping for a lucky guess, for a way out of this mess. My feet are bleeding and I can't feel my spine but I keep going in the hope that whatever it is that my soul craves will be found at the end of the tunnel. What if I'm wrong? What if I guessed wrong and there is no such thing as heaven or God? Well then I suppose is really doesn't matter. At least I spent my life in the belief that I was on the right track. And if there really is nothing after, then I am content in the knowledge that I lived my life with as much meaning and purpose as I could muster.
To Whom It May Concern
To whom it may concern
I have heard it said
There is a time for holding on and a time for letting go
But there is one thing more to be said
Before you let go and before you keep ploding on
Cinsider the possibility that you are not actually chasing
what you thought you were chasing
Perhaps it is a job
or a person
or a dream
or anything else that can be atained in this world.
What if the thing you are searghing for
longing for
is not something that can be found
or built
or achieved in this world.
What is the thing we long for is beyond this world.
What if
this is not the world that we truly belong to.