The love of God

Anger, fear, sadness, and uncertainty at times are working through people’s thoughts, creating worry, despair, and doubt. Effecting this process as well, thoughts are being organized and arranged through our thinking forming into various perspectives. There are other emotions too effecting other perspectives. There are no doubt many thoughts in many forms that are complicating the perspective that human judgment arrives at. Dare I guess at how many combinations of negative emotions and negative thought processes there are. I wouldn’t know the answer to that.

 

Suppose that this negative emotion: anger, fear, sadness, combines with an unaided reasoning producing through a downward spiral of thoughts views which eventually delve into dark places. The negative emotion then must be effecting people poorly combined with this random thought that we generate.  Naively our mistaken behaviors then come about from misjudgments brought on by errors we don’t recognize. We are therefore mislead in our frame of mind caused by things like the impact of negative roll modeling, ugly aspects of culture effecting us, an imagination acting under its own volition void of guidance, and evil itself attacking our thoughts. Can it be that we really aren’t in possession of a will free or a will strong enough to choose wisely the path in front of us. Well it seems obvious that we don’t always recognize where are own judgment is leading us to at all.

 

Alternatively I would suggest that what can be found and discovered for us, if we look in the right place, is a realization that in life there is a power of love and it really does exist. This love is as real a thing to some of us as are the negative states we can also find ourselves in. When we look for peace and then discover that we can even find real clues of peace's potential size, then this too, we may discover, is part of many of people’s lived experiences.

 

When we realize that ultimately what could be waiting for us in our future, beyond the cemetery, could really be a place of peace this curiously is also a part of things as they are and for good reasons. To those who have insight into this peace it is reached experientially eventually in a total fulfillment of ecstasy and unending joy. This is the peace that is not death itself but a better state of existence beyond death.

 

When we pursue hope and discover it is here to be found too it is eye opening. When we pursue meaning in life and find through that search for meaning a resulting awareness that there might really be purpose to our lives it is inspiring. The meaning of life we can discover is discovered through a friendship with God.

 

When we experience the call to forgive,  being deeply challenged by this struggle, and we are able to finally let go of our pride and conquer hatred we realize an important lesson in life. Despite the former determination of our mind to repay insult for insult we are freed to be able to let go of our contempt and bitterness. This too is a real experience many of us have.

 

Maybe If we became wise enough to know and realize that these struggles we face are real and important we may then reconsider how we need to respond to them. As we see this struggle then as part of our true state of existence then we might even want to win the struggle we’re now living through. We might want to understand how to live better and to figure things out right. All of these struggles are human with every one of us struggling through them. No one in this world goes through this life without experiencing stages of experiencing such challenges. The only problem is is that evil is obsessed with ruining your life and mine. Right now evil is at work ruining many lives. Many of these individuals are completely unaware of evils influence on them and they are both naïve and defiant about making a personal change.

 

Can we even rid ourselves of fear, uncertainty, and anger and replace them with peace, hope and confidence in the future. Can it even be done this change. Can we rid ourselves once and for all of fear, from moments of uncertainty, from feelings of anger. I don’t think we can overcome our human emotional limitations entirely while here no. I may be wrong but unfortunately I’ve been unable to do it. I have been able to reach a great deal of peace, find hope in life and know an unshakable confidence in the future while struggling with mental illness. 

 

I think faith and reliance on God’s friendship does accomplish a lot in life. I trust that with faith we really do get assistance from a good God. The assistance may simply be a redirecting of a negative thought unto a loving passage of scripture. The help may be a huge idea that figures out better personal circumstances giving them a healthier perspective. The help may come in a peaceful solution through a sudden epiphany. Who knows maybe God will even give a miracle we won’t even recognize as a miracle.

 

The war for good ideas can be fought on other fronts I’m sure. I’ve seen people of conscience with ethics and commonsense that exhibited a strong nonreligious love that exceeded many religious people’s capacity to think with kindness and compassion.

 

Could what we’re a part of here in life be a titanic struggle for what are important reasons we don’t adequately recognize. Are we meant by God to meaningfully confront and to struggle through these challenges even when many people around us fail to recognize the battle. Are there good reasons for this struggle that we haven’t recognized yet.

 

As we struggle through life people are living and dying unexpectedly, often prematurely. As people die, sometimes, some of us, they die in cruel, accidental or violent ways. As we struggle as people, despite living and dying in the ways we do, will God cause what appears not to make sense in our lives to then ultimately develop into a plan of love that He will inevitably finally reveal to us.

 

For instance consider a life of hardship and calamity relieved from it’s trials by an untimely end. When looked at from this side of life the grief is looked at as being the greatest kind of meaningless tragedy. The death of a child of starvation, for instance, examined by us is a loss we can’t make sense of as people. If an all loving, all knowing force does govern the universe and beyond  then will these lives that are so cut short so cruelly reach new places now, see greener pastures, live free by gentler sun lit shores. The hundreds of millions who have died through history by the most unfortunate ends will they now know a gentler experience in eternity. Will they live now in a place where they have been truly welcomed and where is fairness is permanent. Will we get to see them again and see them smile and laugh I truly believe we will. They also will be the greeter every friend and relative of their own generation who enter Heaven. We will all pass soon enough life is short.

 

It won’t take as long as we fear to see the people we love again. Are they living now under immeasurably better circumstances or is that a fairytale? I personally don’t believe in fairytales. I’m here. I’m alive. I’m thinking. I’m wondering, and that’s not by accident. I have questions. I am looking at the greater unknown. I am looking honestly at life and death. I am writing feeling love through faith and I have a friend who speaks through me. 

 

There really can be reassurance for us that we are loved and that we have a friendship with God. The love I offer, or that most people offer others, is not emotionally mature or wise enough to understand how to love adequately enough to approach the heights love really can reach. Can we trust in this kind of transcending love that is consistent with it's concern for us and doesn’t pull the rug out from under our feet when we least expect it. Can we know a love that never wonders away, never fails, is always there, and that loves us despite anything we can do wrong. How can we find the peace and security of this kind of love, one that is unfailing, unending, infinite in it's reach, beyond what we'll ever fully comprehend no matter how long we have been traveling through the ages beyond us after this world is over.

 

Where is this kind of love then found if it truly does exist. Can love be who God really is? Can God be the one who really abides near all of us now whether we know He’s there or not? Does God travel with us through all of our entangled missteps and experiences lived in the world. Can He be the one who will never leave us? Personally I believe God is right here and now not an inch away from any of us. He will be fair and He will see us through everything and anything. We need to keep our eyes on love...

Life in a box

Suppose we were to imagine that presently, instead of being on Earth surrounded by space, that we are instead in a cardboard box. In that box we are consumed with examining knowledge but only knowledge of the boxes interior since we can’t penetrate it’s burrier. If therefore we have only spent time within the boxes interior and have been therefore unable to see past the cardboard surrounding us then how much might we trust in unseen things beyond and outside of where we currently are existing. 

 If we were to try and estimate beyond it's walls, only having cardboard to imagine now, we would be forced to reluctantly retreat within a belief that finding anything out outside of ourselves seemed impossible.  Yet outside the cardboard box, we people now know this because we live outside that particular kind of box, here there are trees, ponds, rivers, streams, flowers, architecture, rainbows, sunsets, while other thinking creatures wait to engage in dialogue. There are sights and sounds that would take many life times to experience here. A further unknown here too is that there is deep space all around us.  

Now think of where we really are ourselves therefore. We presently are in that same kind of cardboard box like existence here too then. Yet beyond us, beyond everything we can’t see now, there might be more then common sounds; there might be even greater sights more mind-bogglingly large; there may be strange and unusual sunsets; distinct unheard of worlds; truths hidden and found existing far out beyond us.

This is commonsense but what is it really like out there? What significant something else might there be? Should we trust that whatever we don’t know about out there that in that unknown place something does exist and is larger then our imaginations can presently grasp.