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Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
The ears are feeding on Means - Cadences
Courtesy of Facebook status updates:
...I'm feeling a bit guilty now for not appreciating this balmy weather I sometimes whine grumpily about.
So an unbelievable amount of a lot has been going on, and at the same time not a lot has been. But what has been has passed and what is to come, that is, definitely a lot, is to be welcomed with expectation, a smile on my face, my eyes looking Godward, and a few more grey hairs to signal maturity.
HA! Just kidding. My hair is still incredibly black.
We're all growing up and out and sideways and I'm still getting used to it, but more than ever before... it brings comfort now.
In other slightly related news, Facebook is eating up my life. I had a dream last night and people were arranged in a rollercoaster I was on with Rach according to their Facebook pictures. This is potential worry-fodder, for I fear that I will create my own utopia of pixellated people to spend time with and then consequently forget that I, along with those other pixellated people, am made of flesh and that we bleed.
Hmmm... Also been reading too much on authenticity, which explains a pre-empted paranoia of losing myself to virtual reality. (Yes, Meg, I'm using that phrase again. Sorry if you're getting the creeps now!)
I'm also thinking about predestination, and what it must be like to not know where you're going. Isn't that all of us? Most of us do know where we're headed; we have something in mind. And to NOT have anything in mind is now seen as ludicrous in this rat race we wonder to be a part of. (I speak on behalf of The Unsures, myself included.) So we're balancing a greater vision and hope, and a tangible goal in life. And to avoid a senseless ramble, I'll try to be short about my open-ended conclusion (ooh! paradox! that's because I now understand that understanding is an unending part of this life... there's always more than everything we think we know) of predestination. Oh, and predestination would not make sense to anyone without a sense of reverence or belief towards a higher deity or being, so this is for people who believe or know there is a God. Augh, actually, stuff all those disclaimers. Think of me as you will.
I've realised that predestination is a point of contention with people who feel the need to take better control of their lives, make their own decisions, and don't enjoy being told what to do. Which partially includes me, since I'm still working out my issues with authoritarianism from others. Haha. I am, however, at a stage in my life where I understand that it's only natural that as as believer in Christ I ought to take off my willful/divisive/manipulative/know-it-all cap off and submit to the will of God. So I'm finding it rather interesting that most of the time I hear debates about predestination within the body of Christ. Here's what it says in Romans 8:
For those God foreknew He also predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
So... Isn't it much easier to let ourselves go? I know, easier is also easier said than done. But that should be what we work towards, instead of being philosophically correct about everything. Isn't that a contradiction in itself, since philosophy for the good of man (which should be everyone's stance) should not be the force of thought and reason upon individuals but instead impartation of interpretation and as such, discernment according to each one's morality-based belief?
...Not sure I'm making good sense anymore. I'm thinking too much.
And in such thinking, I think I'm going to go float now. Adieu!
17:16
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