Monday, December 12, 2005
The Divine Genesis
This is a really terrific article. Very legit references and more. I think you will be surprised.
Friday, December 02, 2005
Constructing Faith
This is a post I wrote back in September. It is as much needed in the world of politics as in the world of spirituality, so I thought I'd add it to this blog.
We are lost without it.
Reality holds a catch-22 of the most profound sort. I look at the world around me and see grim despair, corruption and conspiracy. It seems like the scope of the negative is so vast that one can't, even by the most optimistic standards, find any reason for hope. The whole of reality sometimes seems an endless tunnel . . . and someone clearly already blocked up the other side, so we aren't ever gonna see light from that direction. How can I hope?
Wake up! God tells me. That's what faith is for. When there is reason for hope, we don't "need" faith---we have reason, after all...!
Faith is both a construction material and a dynamic. Faith itself can create new tunnels and shift circumstance toward finding a light at the end of one we're in. With faith, we see paths we might never have seen otherwise. It is the ultimate "management perspective on reality."
I have a sense that the monks, nuns etc. who pray continually and work to "hold and anchor" faith and such in our world, are critically important, and we have no idea what our consensus reality might be like without that. Anybody who believes in prayer ought to wonder what our world might be like without what has been and is done constantly. And maybe consider how little effort it takes to ask for help for our world.
Faith is like being happy: it takes work. It doesn't just fall on you out of the sky. You can't buy it, and it doesn't have anything to do with circumstance. It seems a talent in some, although that has more to do with their innate connection to God/Self. It is a genuine skill, and one critical for development in times like these.
Anybody can develop faith; but it usually takes work: It takes asking for help. If you're confused, try "To Whom it May Concern." The human ignorance about God and the confusion over which pretty label to use only confuses humans... it does not confuse the myriad identities ready to help if asked. (I am not referring to multiple Gods. I am referring to the fact that in my experience, God has a multitude of identities--be they Angels or whatever things beyond my understanding--which intervene with joy to assist at his directive.)
There is no point to moaning a lack of hope. Hope is directly tied to faith, and faith is directly tied to God. Ask for it.
The world isn't going to get prettier. We were warned about this ahead of time. Why do we act surprised? Why do we sit and moan like victims? "Oh, the world's so bad! Things are so dark! People are so corrupt! Waaaaaa!" Oh get over that! It is TIME for the people capable of holding faith in God, in love, in positive things, to begin doing so!
Archangel Michael and others Of God are anchored in personalities all over this planet. Some of the most unlikely and unsuspecting people have immense inner strength---some born of experiences of this world, but perhaps known by their soul before their entry, and accepted so they would have the strength to live during these "interesting" times. It's not enough to survive here in body. You are here during this time for a reason, and it is your spiritual duty to figure it out.
When did it become "uncool" to pray?! Have the maturity, courage and fortitude to find who you are and be that potential.
Build your faith like a bridge you construct one prayer at a time. Ten seconds of prayer, a few times a day. Would 5-10 minutes total time invested per week be too much? How much is really being asked of you here? You have the potential. Step up to your responsibilities already.
Everything is just.... okay. That doesn't mean it is acceptable and we should be passive, not at all; we are here, with our feelings and our experience and our insight, for a reason. It means that there are larger patterns beyond our ken. The world is happening as it will, and on the surface it's going to be worse before it gets better, but it's OK. If we live in "The Center" as I call it--grounded in faith in God, and whatever that inspires in us internally and externally -- everything is going to be alright... eventually.
There is more at stake here than governments and bodies. There are levels of commitment and loss that we can't even begin to conceptualize.
We have faith each according to his willingness to ask for it, allow it, and hold it.
Cynicism is not cool; it's pathetic. Ask for faith. Stand up and be counted.
Be part of the spiritual solution here. It sure beats the alternative.
We are lost without it.
Reality holds a catch-22 of the most profound sort. I look at the world around me and see grim despair, corruption and conspiracy. It seems like the scope of the negative is so vast that one can't, even by the most optimistic standards, find any reason for hope. The whole of reality sometimes seems an endless tunnel . . . and someone clearly already blocked up the other side, so we aren't ever gonna see light from that direction. How can I hope?
Wake up! God tells me. That's what faith is for. When there is reason for hope, we don't "need" faith---we have reason, after all...!
Faith is both a construction material and a dynamic. Faith itself can create new tunnels and shift circumstance toward finding a light at the end of one we're in. With faith, we see paths we might never have seen otherwise. It is the ultimate "management perspective on reality."
I have a sense that the monks, nuns etc. who pray continually and work to "hold and anchor" faith and such in our world, are critically important, and we have no idea what our consensus reality might be like without that. Anybody who believes in prayer ought to wonder what our world might be like without what has been and is done constantly. And maybe consider how little effort it takes to ask for help for our world.
Faith is like being happy: it takes work. It doesn't just fall on you out of the sky. You can't buy it, and it doesn't have anything to do with circumstance. It seems a talent in some, although that has more to do with their innate connection to God/Self. It is a genuine skill, and one critical for development in times like these.
Anybody can develop faith; but it usually takes work: It takes asking for help. If you're confused, try "To Whom it May Concern." The human ignorance about God and the confusion over which pretty label to use only confuses humans... it does not confuse the myriad identities ready to help if asked. (I am not referring to multiple Gods. I am referring to the fact that in my experience, God has a multitude of identities--be they Angels or whatever things beyond my understanding--which intervene with joy to assist at his directive.)
There is no point to moaning a lack of hope. Hope is directly tied to faith, and faith is directly tied to God. Ask for it.
The world isn't going to get prettier. We were warned about this ahead of time. Why do we act surprised? Why do we sit and moan like victims? "Oh, the world's so bad! Things are so dark! People are so corrupt! Waaaaaa!" Oh get over that! It is TIME for the people capable of holding faith in God, in love, in positive things, to begin doing so!
Archangel Michael and others Of God are anchored in personalities all over this planet. Some of the most unlikely and unsuspecting people have immense inner strength---some born of experiences of this world, but perhaps known by their soul before their entry, and accepted so they would have the strength to live during these "interesting" times. It's not enough to survive here in body. You are here during this time for a reason, and it is your spiritual duty to figure it out.
When did it become "uncool" to pray?! Have the maturity, courage and fortitude to find who you are and be that potential.
Build your faith like a bridge you construct one prayer at a time. Ten seconds of prayer, a few times a day. Would 5-10 minutes total time invested per week be too much? How much is really being asked of you here? You have the potential. Step up to your responsibilities already.
Everything is just.... okay. That doesn't mean it is acceptable and we should be passive, not at all; we are here, with our feelings and our experience and our insight, for a reason. It means that there are larger patterns beyond our ken. The world is happening as it will, and on the surface it's going to be worse before it gets better, but it's OK. If we live in "The Center" as I call it--grounded in faith in God, and whatever that inspires in us internally and externally -- everything is going to be alright... eventually.
There is more at stake here than governments and bodies. There are levels of commitment and loss that we can't even begin to conceptualize.
We have faith each according to his willingness to ask for it, allow it, and hold it.
Cynicism is not cool; it's pathetic. Ask for faith. Stand up and be counted.
Be part of the spiritual solution here. It sure beats the alternative.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Blognotes
I wish this bleepin' blog software had 'categories'. :-( I mean, the software it uses is WordPress which DOES allow for that, yet, in the blogger.com interface it doesn't allow them.
I have decided that obvious media bias is already well covered in the blogosphere. If I have something to say about the really egregarious events, bias and situations that are to be found on many blogs far better than mine, I will say it with a comment to support theirs instead. I'm going to take what blogtime I have to go through articles which to 'general public' readers might seem normal, harmless and unbiased. I want to point out things that apparently are not "apparent" to those who are not already spin-savvy media/politics readers.
Even apolitical Americans can see 'screaming bias' when it exists. You don't have to be a conservative to have eyes in your head. But it takes a little context to observe the more subtle bias and I want to address that. There are many things politicians should be openly called on the carpet about, and they are not because the way they said it isn't as noticeable as the more "on fire" insults that fly in the political arena, so a whole lot 'gets by' that is unfair and shouldn't.
I also am interested in social politics so I will probably blog about gender, race, income, education, childrearing, gardening and my personal life. The blog evolves but since I began it, I think I have been gradually moving into more of what I want to do with it.
I have decided that obvious media bias is already well covered in the blogosphere. If I have something to say about the really egregarious events, bias and situations that are to be found on many blogs far better than mine, I will say it with a comment to support theirs instead. I'm going to take what blogtime I have to go through articles which to 'general public' readers might seem normal, harmless and unbiased. I want to point out things that apparently are not "apparent" to those who are not already spin-savvy media/politics readers.
Even apolitical Americans can see 'screaming bias' when it exists. You don't have to be a conservative to have eyes in your head. But it takes a little context to observe the more subtle bias and I want to address that. There are many things politicians should be openly called on the carpet about, and they are not because the way they said it isn't as noticeable as the more "on fire" insults that fly in the political arena, so a whole lot 'gets by' that is unfair and shouldn't.
I also am interested in social politics so I will probably blog about gender, race, income, education, childrearing, gardening and my personal life. The blog evolves but since I began it, I think I have been gradually moving into more of what I want to do with it.
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