For something based on the assumption that all people are imperfect, it’s curious that religion makes too many people willing to cause suffering based on the assumption that they are perfectly right about it....
Another random rumination on religion
“For all of the loved ones gone.”
Ten years ago today, our family lost the nucleus around which we revolved our lives. That was the day that Elsie Roberts, my beloved grandmother – and who was called “Granny” by everyone who knew her – was taken Home.
(Here’s the memorial write-up that I did a few years ago on the occasion of what would have been Granny’s 100th birthday.)
That was the beginning of a very long and dark period of my life (which might have been pretty dark to begin with). And for quite some time after that I was horribly depressed… and especially about thoughts of death and dying. Granny’s passing would be the first of many people that I loved and cared about that passed away within a short period of time.
There isn’t a day that’s gone by since that afternoon ten years ago, that I haven’t thought of Granny. But ...
More random wit and wisdom of Chris Knight…
Religion is how people run from God. Politics is how people run from sanity.
(With grateful acknowledgment to Charlotte Butler Wright, who came up with the first part and has it on her Facebook page. And I’ve witnessed the second part more times than I care to count.)...
More late night theologicalizing
Something that may or may not make it into the eventual publication of “The Chris Knight Dictionary” (working title)…
Salvation: (noun) That which can not be earned, can not be achieved, but nonetheless must be desired in order to acquire.
Comments, as always, are more than welcome....
This came to mind while working on stuff this morning
God will take us just as we are… and He won’t stop working to make us more than we were....
A clarification of policy
I don’t do predictions about politics. Politics is too predictable....
Let down… and thankful for it
This has been an odd day for me. I had some business in Greensboro during the morning and first part of the afternoon and barely got back before it started snowing again. The local meteorologists this morning called for “an inch” at most of the white stuff accumulating but as I look out my window it’s more like 2 inches and still climbing.
It would have been almost perfect were it not for the less-than-encouraging news that arrived to me today. About how a potentially very neat opportunity that I was set to go to some drastic extremes to pursue… won’t be happening now after all.
But it’s the funniest thing: in spite of how big a loss this is for me, I haven’t felt disappointed by it at all.
Ten years ago there was another opportunity that I very nearly had in my grasp, only to watch it ...
A thought on politics and prayer
Instead of asking God to move the minds of politicians closer to your beliefs, why not ask God to move your own mind closer to Himself?
Seems that would be a more effective use of prayer, anyway. And would likely work a far more impressive and greater good across society in the long run....
Not interchangeable
Power can come from enlightenment, but enlightenment can never come from power....
Have you ever noticed…
…that everyone in the Bible who found “favor with God”, without a single exception, encountered severe trials and troubles?
(Credit goes to friend and fellow blogger Kevin Bussey for that observation. One that I have been led to meditate much upon in the past several days.)...