Are you a person who thinks there is meaning to everything?
Click and clack at the very keys that are aloof before me to dissect this.
A professor I had once drew a circle on the black board, turned around, and very monotonely said, "If this is your life, then how much of it is God concerned with?"
"All of it," because that is the right answer (Just in case someone asks you).
"What about the parts of it that you hate, like class?"
It's this conversation that I take in my mind and put in the basin on the side of the balance labeled, "Every occurrence has meaning or purpose."
Imagine how life would be if you would believe that every part of your life has the opportunity to point to its ultimate purpose. I think that would be wonderful. I think that would make everything make much more freeing, in the sense that there is always something to look for even when life seems to leave us too dead to open our eyes.
The other side labeled: "Everything is coincidental."
I don't like suffering. Unfortunately, I learn greatly from the times of depression, boredom, and suffering.
I can't speak for others though. Friends tell me of tragedies like being raped or family dying.
I can't say that those things have purpose or meaning, because I don't want them to. I want to cut them out of my friends, paint over them with white or black, and put them back in. Like a magic trick, abra-cadabra, and poof-- they never happened.
shalom.
2 comments:
but they have so much meaning...but the choice has to be made to make into good meaning. if you cut that part of me out then i wouldn't be who i'm striving to be...it gives me strength...
I take that back. When bad things happen we need for it to have meaning in order to move on from it... so we connect whatever we can to that rape or death and call it meaningful when all it truly is is false hope in our time of struggle.
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