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newjaninev2 So? I blocked you! How then are you still coming into my mailbox?
Anyway.... My last note to you was that you are an empty person. Can you explain to me how you are fulfilling your purpose here in our world? What are you doing to make 'love' between yourself and your neighbours? Are you married? If so, what do you share with your spouse that makes them feel that they have someone worthwhile to spend their time with - someone who inspires them? And... do you have children? Why? What have you to offer a child if you don't have any belief other than that you will eventually die?
I went to church this morning. I was inspired! It made me feel good to hear people praise my God in song and with reverence for the gifts of life and beauty that surround us. Who do you revere? What do you revere? Do you revere that you have money? How about the home you live in, do you revere the money that allowed you to buy it?
Here's a prayer that, together, we read aloud today. To me it symbolizes what you have lost because I can't really believe that you never had it:
Holy God,
Somewhere in our childhood we face pressure to outgrow awe.
We turn into adults who obsess over data and facts. We praise those who have answers and assume that wonder is an answerless game.
Forgive us for closing that door to you.
Remind us that the kindom of God belongs to children. Teach us again the ways of awe and wonder, so that like Zechariah, when we find ourselves speechless, our first words will be words of praise.
My own words about this prayer are AMEN: I feel badly for you that you don't have a sense of imagination that gives you the simple pleasure of wondering about what you can't prove. Belief is just that.... accepting what we can't understand . If we deny everything that we don't understand, then we would never search for other worlds or accept that perhaps God did create magnificent things before the creation of 'time'.
How about this for imagination: What if there are many Gods (and angels too) who did create worlds for their own pleasure and that the god who created our world asked his creations to worship him only as did the gods who created other worlds! I get such simple pleasure out of my imagination - and I will feel no shame if in some future time I come to the end of my life and find there is your "NOTHING" awaiting me. But, through my imagination I have HOPE... I have a belief that my Christ did live and did set an example for people to follow and that He did promise the people He spoke to when He was alive that there is a God, His father, whom He asked for counsel and whom He worshipped and so set his resolve to die for his beliefs and in so doing, showed us that He was prepared to GIVE HIS ALL to save us from the sin of non-belief.
So: You have no gods. Wonderful for you???? I wonder, because you don't have proof and you don't wonder!
