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Guest
March 19th 2007:
I don’t curse God. I won’t curse God. I think God is wonderful. There is nothing else and nothing so wonderful that matters in existence. I feel deeply for those who are unable to experience the beauty of creation and the wonder, wisdom and love that is our Maker. I feel sorry for those who out of intellectual ignorance have thought their way into a fortress where they hide themselves in their mind behind walls deliberately constructed to deny entry to the one thing their being craves the most – the desire for love and the desire to be loved. This wall preventing love getting out also prevents love getting in and so the human person is cut off from the one of the chief life forces – that of love. This denial to love forces the person to ferment within his fortress of self obsession whereby slowly his capacity for love and self giving rots away until eventually his emotions become a willed exercise, not genuinely felt but willed for the benefit of superficial social union with others.
I am sorry for those people. My thoughts wander to another realm of reality – that of why exist? What is the purpose of our existence? My atheist friends find this question very hard to answer and almost never present the purpose as something altruistic but rather they propose ‘purpose’ as the fulfillment of some inner desire designed to benefit only the person desiring. But what is the purpose?
I find myself feeling sad when I think of my parents who where once young like me. Now, however, they are older and getting older, moving towards that inevitable point where we all depart this life. It seems so sad and gloomy that once they where as full of hope as I was, that they had hopes and dreams of raising a family and settling into a good job - an excitement rising up from the depths of their being. An emotion of hope naturally designed to urge us on. Yet when those hopes are realised, when we have obtained the necessary joy from the fulfillment of these earthly desires what is left? This seems so obvious an answer that everyone knows yet many people decline to answer. They decline to face the consequences because as I said it seems so sad and gloomy. To an atheist this is indeed what they have to look forward to and nothing else. They have no purpose but self fulfillment of their own desires. The altruistic love for other people serves no purpose for them but the wasting of time which could otherwise be spent fulfilling their own desires.
Such an existence is indeed sad and gloomy. I am grateful for the gift of faith given to me by my father and with it the realisation that nothing on this earth really matters. Desires may fill me with excitement. I may long to have my girlfriend near and to be married and to have children and to have a good career and to be within a social community I can call my own but at the end of this day I will always realise that these things are fleeting. They will pass one day and will no longer matter and then what will I be left with? The atheist will be left with nothing. I will be left with the one thing I believe my life should be lived for. The purpose of life is to be in union with God - the ultimate union to be realised when we have lived our life and we leave this world to be united in love to the one true God of Love.
Our lives lived for this purpose take on a new meaning, a new understanding. Everything we do and every desire we have is now there only in so far as they are directed toward the ultimate desire of realizing full unity with the Creator. I can celebrate the love of God and I can work towards the union with God by being united with him here on earth in everything I do and every desire I have. I love God and I love everything he has given me here on earth and I love the desires that he has given me in that they allow me to celebrate his glory. They allow me to give thanksgiving and praise to him and nothing else matters - Nothing that might seek to draw me away from this unifying desire - This desire to be raised up on the last day, to be consumed by his love. This is all that matters.
Death then becomes a celebration and never a sorrow. Life becomes a longing and not an inevitable sadness. I should celebrate my parents because they have achieved what I only desire and they are one step closer to that wonderful loving union with the Creator. Why should I feel sad for them? Why should I feel sad for the loss of a loved one because my altruistic desire for their betterment, for their joy is realised more and more each day. I love you Lord and I love the life you have given us. With all my heart I desire to be with you and with all my heart I sorrow when my actions might push you away or when my desires order themselves towards earthly fulfillment rather than fulfillment of the one true hearts desire – You – and you are Love.
AP Quinn
I don’t curse God. I won’t curse God. I think God is wonderful. There is nothing else and nothing so wonderful that matters in existence. I feel deeply for those who are unable to experience the beauty of creation and the wonder, wisdom and love that is our Maker. I feel sorry for those who out of intellectual ignorance have thought their way into a fortress where they hide themselves in their mind behind walls deliberately constructed to deny entry to the one thing their being craves the most – the desire for love and the desire to be loved. This wall preventing love getting out also prevents love getting in and so the human person is cut off from the one of the chief life forces – that of love. This denial to love forces the person to ferment within his fortress of self obsession whereby slowly his capacity for love and self giving rots away until eventually his emotions become a willed exercise, not genuinely felt but willed for the benefit of superficial social union with others.
I am sorry for those people. My thoughts wander to another realm of reality – that of why exist? What is the purpose of our existence? My atheist friends find this question very hard to answer and almost never present the purpose as something altruistic but rather they propose ‘purpose’ as the fulfillment of some inner desire designed to benefit only the person desiring. But what is the purpose?
I find myself feeling sad when I think of my parents who where once young like me. Now, however, they are older and getting older, moving towards that inevitable point where we all depart this life. It seems so sad and gloomy that once they where as full of hope as I was, that they had hopes and dreams of raising a family and settling into a good job - an excitement rising up from the depths of their being. An emotion of hope naturally designed to urge us on. Yet when those hopes are realised, when we have obtained the necessary joy from the fulfillment of these earthly desires what is left? This seems so obvious an answer that everyone knows yet many people decline to answer. They decline to face the consequences because as I said it seems so sad and gloomy. To an atheist this is indeed what they have to look forward to and nothing else. They have no purpose but self fulfillment of their own desires. The altruistic love for other people serves no purpose for them but the wasting of time which could otherwise be spent fulfilling their own desires.
Such an existence is indeed sad and gloomy. I am grateful for the gift of faith given to me by my father and with it the realisation that nothing on this earth really matters. Desires may fill me with excitement. I may long to have my girlfriend near and to be married and to have children and to have a good career and to be within a social community I can call my own but at the end of this day I will always realise that these things are fleeting. They will pass one day and will no longer matter and then what will I be left with? The atheist will be left with nothing. I will be left with the one thing I believe my life should be lived for. The purpose of life is to be in union with God - the ultimate union to be realised when we have lived our life and we leave this world to be united in love to the one true God of Love.
Our lives lived for this purpose take on a new meaning, a new understanding. Everything we do and every desire we have is now there only in so far as they are directed toward the ultimate desire of realizing full unity with the Creator. I can celebrate the love of God and I can work towards the union with God by being united with him here on earth in everything I do and every desire I have. I love God and I love everything he has given me here on earth and I love the desires that he has given me in that they allow me to celebrate his glory. They allow me to give thanksgiving and praise to him and nothing else matters - Nothing that might seek to draw me away from this unifying desire - This desire to be raised up on the last day, to be consumed by his love. This is all that matters.
Death then becomes a celebration and never a sorrow. Life becomes a longing and not an inevitable sadness. I should celebrate my parents because they have achieved what I only desire and they are one step closer to that wonderful loving union with the Creator. Why should I feel sad for them? Why should I feel sad for the loss of a loved one because my altruistic desire for their betterment, for their joy is realised more and more each day. I love you Lord and I love the life you have given us. With all my heart I desire to be with you and with all my heart I sorrow when my actions might push you away or when my desires order themselves towards earthly fulfillment rather than fulfillment of the one true hearts desire – You – and you are Love.
AP Quinn
) , I work and I am at peace, should you pity me?