Having realized years ago that there truly is a God that will accept us, love us and forgive us has me pondering the eternal question, why? I soon began to contemplate why there are opposites such as white and black, hot and cold, love and indifference, sin and righteousness, water and land, darkness and light. The list goes on immeasureably.
I call this "the mystery of mysteries." A lot of things we understand because we can "see" or experience with one of our five senses. What about the world we can't see? What goes on in a fungi dish, an ant colony or in the Spirit world? Just because we readily don't notice or observe the fungus, the ant, or the Spirit doesn't imply they don't exist.
From a personal view point, all I had to do was to pursue my preference or interest then a window of knowledge began to arise from the concealmentfrom within the depths of the mystery. When I began to pursue "the mystery of God" I realized this is the work of the soul that most pleases God.
Anyone could be forgiven for thinking that God is nowhere to be found. For years, of days gone by people have looked into the mirror of Mother Nature and saw heroes, sorcerers, dragons, and holy grails reflected back. The sacred was a mystery, a source of supreme or divine power, and nothing could exist from a river to a thunderclap, without a god to create it.
Today, right now, Wednesday,October 1st,2008 the mirror is clouded for "most" people. We have outgrown the need for a god or a hero born in some distant part of our memory. What do we see instead? A war without an end in sight, world hunger still in epidemic proportions, financial institutions falling like dominoes,a mentality of if it feels good do it,buying things we can't afford with plastic,party until you have to pay the piper or puke.
Are the old mysteries of the former saints irrevelent today? Are the proverbs of scripture still vital in todays society?
What we see today in a clouded mirror is a society that stripmines old myths and Truth to build a city like Las Vegas. If you want to meet a myth here, you check into a hotel-casino called Excalibur. The only god is Fortune, the only dragons to conquer are the slot machines, and most of the time they win...
In a mythless world something is missing, but do you know what it is?
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Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. Inspect what you expect...
Look and you will find it- what is unsought will go undetected. God has all the goods...
Thank you for the warm welcome ... I've visited but never contributed.
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Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. Inspect what you expect...
Look and you will find it- what is unsought will go undetected. God has all the goods...
In a mythless world something is missing, but do you know what it is?
ummmm-Let's see--ahhh---science????
Are you saying that science is nothing more than mythology? The claims made by science, unlike those of the supernatural, have to be backed up by actual and compelling evidence. Science has shown itself to be the antidote to mythology.
In a mythless world something is missing, but do you know what it is?
Things like meaning, purpose, destiny, etc. Things supplied by religion. If you take away myth--and I use the term here in a very broad sense--you really take away any possibility of ever transcending the broken, material reality we find ourselves in. Myth portrays an ongoing, deeper reality that we're part of; it puts us in a greater story and from that we find the true reasons to live and our purpose. In that sense, all religion is myth. It places us in an ongoing story from which we can see our purpose and destiny.
Take away myth from a society, and you end up with something like the secular West: People struggling with dislocation and meaninglessness and left with no alternative but to try to come up with their own meaning and purpose. It doesn't seem that it works. People don't seem to be able to invent their own purpose and then have it fuel their life and existence in a way that sets them on fire. In other words, they can choose a reason to live, but it doesn't give them life.
Religions do this, especially the Christianity I believe in. It gives people a purpose, a meaning, and some realization of a greater dimension to what they do. And marvelously enough, it lights a fire under them. They draw life from it because behind all of it is the source of life.
...but do you know what it is?
