Thursday, January 18, 2007
3 Thoughts...
Before I rant to anyone that might care, I would just like to say I created another blog. It'll be my wrirings, that way it ca be seperate from this one - it's in my links section, so you can visit that for your enjoyment if you'd like!
It amazes how a single word can mean nothing to one person, or it could mean everything to the next. Depending on what a particular word means to the individual... Depending on what you’ve walked through, how we all take in circumstance, and love. How we give it. How we have recieved it. Or how we haven’t recieved it. The only way we can understand each other is our own way in how we relate to each another. In a sense, we are all alone, but we are still all together. A simple word such as ‘mountain’ can mean nothing more than the amount of room on a page that the word takes up. But for others it can mean vast, huge, enormous, etc. Or it could mean pain, struggle, battle, etc. On the opposite side of the spectrum it could mean victory, overcoming, it could mean journey or remind you of a time in your life you faced something hard. Or it could just mean, ‘a big hill with lots of trees on it!’ Either way...one word has an impact on any given person. It can change the way you feel in a moment.. one, small, tiny word... which leads me to my next thought...
Interestingly enough that reminds me how people relate to one another. How nobody wants to be alone and agian, even what the word ‘alone’ means to you?
It intrigues me that we connect with others in ‘relation’. Relating brings people together and they don’t feel alone. Sometimes it’s healthy, sometimes it’s unhealthy. Of course we all know this, but as think through it, I personally find it fascinating! Don’t we have the people around us that we do because we ‘relate’ to them in some sort of way?
This last thought has nothing to do with the first two, really, but I thought I’d throw it in anyway...I do not have much pain from family or other such circumstances, although there’s probably bondage there I’m caught in that I don’t even know about… or from my past. I find it ironic how much our past determines our future. (If we let it...but some of it, we’ll never catch) Who we are, what we’ve done, what others have done to us, etc. Until we realize we have the power to alter what we do with what happens to us, that’s the way it seems to go. Yet what man (or woman) can truly master that? There’s only been one. I see how the one thing that hinders me and keeps me held and pinned down in my life, is not other people, is not even circumstance or obstalces. It is not death (thanks Jesus) it is not money or rescources, but it is me. It is my own heart, it is my own mind. I need freedom from myself…. I need a savior… from me…
It amazes how a single word can mean nothing to one person, or it could mean everything to the next. Depending on what a particular word means to the individual... Depending on what you’ve walked through, how we all take in circumstance, and love. How we give it. How we have recieved it. Or how we haven’t recieved it. The only way we can understand each other is our own way in how we relate to each another. In a sense, we are all alone, but we are still all together. A simple word such as ‘mountain’ can mean nothing more than the amount of room on a page that the word takes up. But for others it can mean vast, huge, enormous, etc. Or it could mean pain, struggle, battle, etc. On the opposite side of the spectrum it could mean victory, overcoming, it could mean journey or remind you of a time in your life you faced something hard. Or it could just mean, ‘a big hill with lots of trees on it!’ Either way...one word has an impact on any given person. It can change the way you feel in a moment.. one, small, tiny word... which leads me to my next thought...
Interestingly enough that reminds me how people relate to one another. How nobody wants to be alone and agian, even what the word ‘alone’ means to you?
It intrigues me that we connect with others in ‘relation’. Relating brings people together and they don’t feel alone. Sometimes it’s healthy, sometimes it’s unhealthy. Of course we all know this, but as think through it, I personally find it fascinating! Don’t we have the people around us that we do because we ‘relate’ to them in some sort of way?
This last thought has nothing to do with the first two, really, but I thought I’d throw it in anyway...I do not have much pain from family or other such circumstances, although there’s probably bondage there I’m caught in that I don’t even know about… or from my past. I find it ironic how much our past determines our future. (If we let it...but some of it, we’ll never catch) Who we are, what we’ve done, what others have done to us, etc. Until we realize we have the power to alter what we do with what happens to us, that’s the way it seems to go. Yet what man (or woman) can truly master that? There’s only been one. I see how the one thing that hinders me and keeps me held and pinned down in my life, is not other people, is not even circumstance or obstalces. It is not death (thanks Jesus) it is not money or rescources, but it is me. It is my own heart, it is my own mind. I need freedom from myself…. I need a savior… from me…
Labels: Misc Thoughts
Friday, November 24, 2006
Miscellaneous Thoughts
Love is infinite. Yet, how well is it understood? How well do I understand it? How well do you understand it? The ultimate image has been set before us, but the mind doesn’t seem to comprehend, thus why it impacts over, and over again. If we could see a scale or a measure of the love we have, I wonder what that would look like in my life or yours. But since love is infinite, nobody would class anywhere on that scale because nobody’s love is infinite.
Times in life we can feel like we’ve got it all together, like we can see other people and their issues, struggles or problems and we don’t feel like we have any. But in time, flaws are revealed as (I believe) God wants to deal with them. But I see now just how many mistakes we make in one day. Just how ‘short’ we actually fall. How can you ever show anyone God’s love and any amount of depth to that if you haven’t seen it for yourself? If you haven’t needed a savior? That means you’ve got a few thorn bushes to walk through. At least for me, that statement holds truth. How can I see the extent of love if I feel that I’m worthy of it? It’s in those times you’re at your lowest of lows, rock bottom, naked, ashamed and unworthy, weighted and heavy, from issues, either what you’ve done or what you may have had happen to you. Everyone knows what pain feels like. I would fear for you if you hadn’t felt it before.
I’ve heard and read (and experienced) countless stories of someone (myself, included) who’s lost, corrupt and jaded, yet the love of God approaches and wants to take that away all because of love. It’s not until you experience it for yourself, in the shoes or bare feet of the naked soul, ashamed, weighted and burdened, distorted by life’s troubles, hurts and pains. It doesn’t necessarily mean your life has to walk through hell to see redemption but in same ways and some times… you do. Jesus did. Although, He walked through the worst so we don’t have to.
I find, at times, much knowledge in myself walking through certain circumstances but what good is knowledge without action? What good is knowledge over wisdom? I have a renewed understanding, if that’s safe to say, of how I need the strength of God in everything I do. To the extent that when I’m broken down, nothing left to offer or give, because I’m too weighted, too heavy, and God’s strength comes over me to help me ask him for help. I really am powerless. But once the word is applied with faith, it breeds life into the soul, that you never knew existed. Even reading these words can have no life or meaning to you but if you experience it for yourself… it’s life altering. If I learned about you or read about you, it doesn’t mean that I ‘know’ you, it just means I know ‘about’ you.
Think for a moment… that if God loves you as much as you believe He does or as much as He says He does… then… this entire world that He created (in only 7 days, mind you) and even if you look out your window to see what’s outside and let the beauty of nature get hold of you for the moment, you can feel something to it. Something in it. Chew on this…. That God made ALL of that, yet… loves you more. Values you more than the world he created. More than entire universe that he created. Just you. If nobody else existed on this planet but you, you would be the most prized possession – His best. In fact, right now, you ARE His best. His masterpiece. A work of art. That’s special, yet hard to understand. Especially because we’re not worth it. We don’t deserve that status. We don’t carry that worth. Nevertheless, we have it, through Christ, we have it. He made us, He called us worthy through His son, He loved us before He knew us, so therefore, our own opinions of each other and ourselves just don’t matter.
Labels: Misc Thoughts
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