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On the way to coffee....
….I saw a graveyard. I then realized/remembered I will be there at any point between this current moment of consciousness and my last.
This immediately rearranged my day. I am not God, I will die. I must deal with this each and every day.
Who is telling me that I will die one day?
The TV isn’t:
The TV tries to convince you that’s what happens to other people. It tells you to keep; keep jockeying for position, booking 5 star vacations, buying anti-aging cream, trying to screw the un-screwable, lifting weights and dieting, etc.
Your friends aren’t:
No one likes to be a debbie downer, I don’t. I drown my advice with the practical rarely considering that the person I speak with will one day die.
Your parent’s don’t:
Parents hate to think about their children dying…..so they don’t talk about it. They tell us to strive for goals, don’t be like ‘tommy’ down the street, and to eat our vegetables so we don’t get sick. Not blaming parents, they are there for protection of sorts……however the message of death shouldn’t be shielded from us but we should learn how to process the restraints of life, called death.
And most of things you read don’t:
The self-help, gossip, car, gun, hair books and magazines don’t mention it. They show you images on paper that creates the insatiable that has no room to consider the inevitable.
I am there with you. read my last post….and that’s why I post this.
**I think a subject called ‘death education’ should be taught in grade school….this may rearrange current capitalistic constraints currently felt amongst the masses as we all position for the infinite…..realizing too late it was all futile.
Faith{starts - ends}Faith
I was dead spiritually at a certain point in time. I am no longer dead spiritually but I am alive. What this means is that I prefer, have leanings, desire God to be much and Roy to be null (more explained here). I was dead, not injured, not handicapped, not confused….DEAD and I am now alive. What did this to me was an ‘agent’ outside of myself, I did nothing smart, superior, righteous to call the ‘agent’ into being and/or make it answer my beckon call.
What I find is that since being alive I also fall asleep. (it’s weird how simple yet not this subject really is)
The same ‘agent’ that moved me from being spiritually dead to spiritually alive is the same that causes me to also wake from my slumber.
So in short, my salvation experience is not different from my awakening experience. both start and end with faith and that is the largest denominator of the equation i now speak of.
“It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” - Romans 1:17
So we can stop being idiots
I am known by a few people for speaking my mind. This allows me to have super close friends while also staying away from half-ass friends. (you know those people in your phone book you don’t ever call and when they call you screen them)
However behind the scenes and a reason I speak my mind is because i am attempting to speak to my own mind. You see, we all settle, fall in traps, lose view of what life really is…I of which am horrible at…..SO….when I am thinking straight, aka in the spirit, I often like to speak truth out loud to a company of friends in hope:
- it encourages and/or admonishes them, so that they can wrestle with the truth
- it allows them to hold me accountable and ask me why I have lost my way when i eventually do
“Who does he think he is?”
is almost the immediate question that follows some of my statements.
I am the son of the King, an heir to the throne of God. So are you. It’s a position given to all saints. Take up the position with me and maybe we can stop being idiots together.
what I have learned about men and women
When men do not connect/hang/love other men they:
- don’t lead
- their aspirations fizzle
- they stare at porn
- they get fat and watch reality TV with their wife or girlfriend
- they never meet expectations, not even our own
When women do not connect/hang/love other women they;
- become nags
- they crave control, if they lose it they become more of #1
- they hate both men and women
- their expectations get higher, no-one can ever meet them
In the end this boils down to where the gospel is meeting you….and if you are meeting with the gospel I believe it eventually leads to healthy same-sex relationships.
**the presupposition is that you have good friends, thanks for the comment Steve.
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