#sufferring

[honorarytenenbaum]

i just want to be taika's late night phone-a-friend, defacto drinking buddy, and late night feelings consultant. is that too much to ask? 🥺

[asknakaharachuuya]

[gumuhit]

is there purpose in suffering? (2019)

[philipchircop]

Here's an exchange worth pondering.

You said "'What punishments of God are not gifts?' Do you really believe that?" Anderson Cooper asks Stephen Colbert.

"Yes," Colbert replies. "It's a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There's no escaping that."

[philipchircop]

IN SEARCH OF THE PATH

IN SEARCH OF THE PATH

“I am willing to leave everything. Let me be your disciple.”

“How does a person choose his Path in life?”

“Through sacrifice. A path that demands sacrifice is a true path.”

The master accidentally bumped into a bookcase. A very rare porcelain vase fell off the shelf and the lad flung himself forward to catch it before it hit the ground. He fell the wrong way and broke his arm. But he was able…

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[philipchircop]

GOD IN THE NITTY-GRITTY OF LIFE

According to Michael Valpy of Globe and Mail, at the core of Gregory Baum’s theological convictions "lay the writings of the early-20th-century French philosopher Maurice Blondel. They led to what may have been his most important book, Man Becoming: God in Secular Language, assessing positively Blondel's acknowledgment of God's redemptive presence in human history.

God, in other words, existed in the nitty-gritty of life - an "insider God," as Toronto's Regis College academic Mary Jo Leddy explained Dr. Baum's view. You fall in love?

That's God at work.

God was on the ground with grace - the benevolence shown by God toward the human race, the spontaneous gift from God to people, "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved."

[philipchircop]

Here’s something to plunge into, and reflect upon.