A COLD MORNING - BIG MOON - WAITING FOR THE LIGHTI'm am always glad that it is Sunday. It will do Larry and I good to go to church today at Gracepoint [Bell Center]. Carol and Panteli were there last night for a comedy play. I will go for a walk this morning first. Sandra and Mary dropped by but I had gone down to London Drugs so just saw them leave. We miss seeing Kim as she was dropping by before going to college here in Surrey.
We are going to our study group with Pat and John etc. Also Doug Graves will be there he is marrying Mary and Michael John. Our study is "Why Faith Matters" and our chapter tonight is "Where does religion come from?"
"Religion has threaded through every age and culture.
"Religion begins in wonder, flourishes in relationship, and is realized through living with an awareness of holiness.
"Beginning with humanity's earliest stories, such as the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh chronicling a man's failed search for immortality, thinkers and poets have proclaimed death our greatest fear.
"Religion promises that death is not the end."
We are finding growing older a difficult challenge I think because you lose the energy to fight for health and to overcome aches and pains. I have never had a lot of energy but I have had an awareness of the presence of God and his love for me.
Most, religious people engage in innumerable activities of kindness, charity and selflessness. Not because they fear death "far stronger is the impulse to responsibility, to living a sacred life, a life of service."
"Spiritual aspiration is a likelier origin of religion than fear."
"No one knows how the first ancestors of human beings created religion."
"Is religion built into our genes or do we in some deep sense choose to be religious?"
"There remains no good reason to suppose religion is a misfired strategy of survival. Rather, it is a response to a reality beyond us. Far from being trapped in tribal illusions, we are liberated by transcendent truths."
"The resources of the human spirit continually transcend the presumed limitations of biology or conditioning"
"Religion is neither an answer to a question nor the solution to a problem.
"It is a response to the wonder of existence and a guide to life."
"Do we come to God from tragedy or joy, from sadness or from wonder?"
"The answer is both and more, for at the root of faith is not a solution but a relationship."
"Suffering can open the soul; and can enable us to be close to one another in a new way."
"From time to time I realize, speaking to someone in trouble or in pain, that if I can only be quiet, only return the person to himself, that healing can occur."
"To respond is to feel one has been sent."
"Religion is not a fantasy projected upward but a call received." A promise that elevates the human spirit to continue to do better; to do more to bring peace and equality into a world where so many are suffering and feel so hopeless.
"The essential task of religion in this world is to heal, to help, to repair what has been shattered."
We are going to our study group with Pat and John etc. Also Doug Graves will be there he is marrying Mary and Michael John. Our study is "Why Faith Matters" and our chapter tonight is "Where does religion come from?"
"Religion has threaded through every age and culture.
"Religion begins in wonder, flourishes in relationship, and is realized through living with an awareness of holiness.
"Beginning with humanity's earliest stories, such as the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh chronicling a man's failed search for immortality, thinkers and poets have proclaimed death our greatest fear.
"Religion promises that death is not the end."
We are finding growing older a difficult challenge I think because you lose the energy to fight for health and to overcome aches and pains. I have never had a lot of energy but I have had an awareness of the presence of God and his love for me.
Most, religious people engage in innumerable activities of kindness, charity and selflessness. Not because they fear death "far stronger is the impulse to responsibility, to living a sacred life, a life of service."
"Spiritual aspiration is a likelier origin of religion than fear."
"No one knows how the first ancestors of human beings created religion."
"Is religion built into our genes or do we in some deep sense choose to be religious?"
"There remains no good reason to suppose religion is a misfired strategy of survival. Rather, it is a response to a reality beyond us. Far from being trapped in tribal illusions, we are liberated by transcendent truths."
"The resources of the human spirit continually transcend the presumed limitations of biology or conditioning"
"Religion is neither an answer to a question nor the solution to a problem.
"It is a response to the wonder of existence and a guide to life."
"Do we come to God from tragedy or joy, from sadness or from wonder?"
"The answer is both and more, for at the root of faith is not a solution but a relationship."
"Suffering can open the soul; and can enable us to be close to one another in a new way."
"From time to time I realize, speaking to someone in trouble or in pain, that if I can only be quiet, only return the person to himself, that healing can occur."
"To respond is to feel one has been sent."
"Religion is not a fantasy projected upward but a call received." A promise that elevates the human spirit to continue to do better; to do more to bring peace and equality into a world where so many are suffering and feel so hopeless.
"The essential task of religion in this world is to heal, to help, to repair what has been shattered."
1 comment:
Good morning Mum.
Ken
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