Spiritual stuff:
Dec. 4th, 2002 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflySo, finally got Conversations with God; Part One. I've read the other two parts, but not the first. And now I have all three checked out of the library.
What these books are most useful for, for me, at least... anyway, they make me think. About life, faith, happiness.
I just started and one of the things mentioned is that there are two wellsprings of emotion, love and fear, and everything springs from those two emotions. Which made me think about what makes those two emotions the two emotions and it has to do with trust. Love is trust. Fear is lack of trust.
Also, it made me think about my own position on prayer. I'm a big believer in answered prayers. That is, I believe that every prayer is answered. Every prayer that I have ever made has been answered. My own problem is that I don't ask. I don't feel that I deserve things, and so, while I want them, I don't ask or pray for them.
I still have that instinctive "I'm not good enough" reaction.
I've been wondering whether or not I should continue to call myself a Christian. And really, it does depend on how you define the word. If being Christian means a person who tries to live life as Christ did, then I'm one. If being a Christian means that I think that Jesus is the only way to heaven, then I'm not.
I've stopped believing in hell, though honestly I never had a strong belief in its existence.
Eh, it's too late/early for Deep Thoughts.
Paul Gross is pretty. Callum Keith Rennie is pretty. They're both very pretty when they smile at each other.
What these books are most useful for, for me, at least... anyway, they make me think. About life, faith, happiness.
I just started and one of the things mentioned is that there are two wellsprings of emotion, love and fear, and everything springs from those two emotions. Which made me think about what makes those two emotions the two emotions and it has to do with trust. Love is trust. Fear is lack of trust.
Also, it made me think about my own position on prayer. I'm a big believer in answered prayers. That is, I believe that every prayer is answered. Every prayer that I have ever made has been answered. My own problem is that I don't ask. I don't feel that I deserve things, and so, while I want them, I don't ask or pray for them.
I still have that instinctive "I'm not good enough" reaction.
I've been wondering whether or not I should continue to call myself a Christian. And really, it does depend on how you define the word. If being Christian means a person who tries to live life as Christ did, then I'm one. If being a Christian means that I think that Jesus is the only way to heaven, then I'm not.
I've stopped believing in hell, though honestly I never had a strong belief in its existence.
Eh, it's too late/early for Deep Thoughts.
Paul Gross is pretty. Callum Keith Rennie is pretty. They're both very pretty when they smile at each other.
