Yep. You read that right. This is how I feel about life right now... I don't like it. I feel unemployed. I don't want to fundraise and I just want to have one place to live.
But I am stuck because I begin thinking this way and then I realize what is true. I have God's love, MANY places to live, all the money I could ever want, great friends and boyfriend and family, and I have a job that I love much more often than I hate it. What am I complaining about anyway?
I've also been thinking about John 10:10 and how Jesus said that he came that we might have abundant life. Is that a promise for now? If so, what do I need to be doing to experience that? Any ideas!?
PS- I need a creative blog name. I am itching to change it again! What do you think of the current one?
Update: Just for clarification sake (so you understand the comments- yay for comments)the post title was originally "hating life" and the blog title was for a brief time changed to "Compelled."
Thursday, June 29, 2006
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3 comments:
Cal-
You are a FUNNY man! I debated a lot about compelled.
varv-
I like your idea. After looking at your blog though I felt like I was ripping off your ideas so I went a different route.
I am not creative at all. GRRRR!
"Jesus said that he came that we might have abundant life. Is that a promise for now?"
Your question brings to mind my answer to a related question I ran across a while back. This answer seems equally applicable to your question about the nature of abundant life. Here you go:
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Q: "how is it possible to remain hopeful and optimistic when the world is so hopelessly flawed and cruel?"
A: It is possible when our peace and contentment are not attached to our circumstances.
In this a great mystery is presented. The world is hopelessly flawed and cruel: we feel real pain and suffer. Yet, peace has been broken free of these painful circumstances: we feel real joy. So, in this world we have been freed to feel pain [or just a little stuck]. We suffer and have joy simultaneously. Such is the meat of in but not of the world.
Christ's work has bought and given us a wedding garment - freeing us to be in God's presence (heaven). Christ's work has broken peace free from our circumstances - freeing us to be in this world (suffering). Thus, Christ's gift to us is both the "there" and the "here".
p.s. I'm not saying there's only suffering in this world - there is good too. All the same, the good circumstances are all the better with Christ’s new arrangement: when peace doesn't require them.
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So, "Is that a promise for now?" You bet sweetie-pie.
"[W]hat do I need to be doing to experience that? This question betrays you - misleads you.
"Any ideas!?" See the answer above.
You ask good questions Girasol. They get me to bite like a good fishy. And Girasol is a good blog name: intriguing to the unknowing looking in - personal and accurate to the long initiated. Simplicity with out being overly simplistic.
That response was beautiful. Eloquent, deep, simple and surprisingly (or not so surprisingly) uplifting! Thanks hermit! I am glad you bit the bait.
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