Sometimes doing what you feel is right brings with it a sense of reward but not always. Today I took a card over to my neighbor who is not well and by mistake took dad's birthday card. I discovered the mistake in time and was able to exchange the cards. I have had one of those days when I felt that all my thoughts where just the same old things going round and round. I have had trouble with this computer going off for no reason. Maybe it just feels old like I do when I make plans and am not able to carry them out.
I have been discovering ancient philosophy and how it is woven into education and religion.
"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied." Aristotle.
This is what drives us to keep on searching and looking for the truth.
I have been reading about a new way to read scripture and finding new life in the old familiar words. As we read we find questions coming into our minds and that is the whole purpose not to find answers but to keep finding questions. What is it that inevitably draws us back into the same old way of thinking and acting ?When there awaits for us a potential that may seem like a dream, but can become a reality when we are free of the past and ready to move on.
The gospelswhere written to a conquered people who had lost their temple and the very sacred traditions of their worship. The words of Jesus would come back to them to show them the way back to their God through their own inner resources, particularly those of self-honesty self-compassion in the face of loss, and a new deeper trust in the Holy. They could now enjoy spiritual freedom if they were willing to change their beliefs.
The God of the sky had become the God of the temple and now he became the God of the fields and forests, streams and rocky cliffs.
Matthew starts his gospel not to prove who Jesus was but to remind the reader of all the long line of people who had suffered tremendous loss and yet prevailed.. They were unique, and the vision that had begun with Abraham leaving behind the worship of idols, would become a vision that each one could carry in their own hearts.
Jesus was a priest that walked among us with ordinary clothes and the same needs of daily living we all face. The face of God became human, strong yet tender; untameable and free, an unquenchable fire that burns in the spoken word so that it can penetrate deep into our hearts.
We all have a history of different people coming into our lives and having either a positive or negative influence on us. What I believe is important to me just as what you believe is important to you. We can learn from each other.
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