ok dudes. so i am on a journey.
the tides are turning and the sun is shining right back at me!
its been about 6 weeks since I have worked fulltime in a 'permie' (no, not my hair... a permanent job!)
Its been interesting....
hmmm....
this chit-chatting with the van-nee has become somewhat much more serious of late...
as i contemplate life, where i'm at... what to do... how to pay bills, how to find bills! (my house has looked like a BOMB has exploded-- well, not my loungeroom, but its getting there!)---
so where is God in all this?
As a devoted God 'botherer' (as i have been called at somepoint).... hehe.... i tend to pray lots in times of joy and even more during the 'down' times.
but my question is... how do you handle the 'down' times?
what is a 'down' time anyways? (not to be confused with 'downtown'... a bad 70's hit)
because you can see it one of 2 ways...
1) a time to rest, re-couperate... regroup, re-focus, re-energise... re-hope?!
or
2) whinge, whine, get pissed off (majorly) at how badly life has 'turned out'... and think that the world somehow owes you something when things dont go 'your way'... whatever the heck that means!?
i'd like to say that its easier to choose 2. and most often, this is the gut/ knee jerk reaction to life's battles and difficulties.
Its a lot easier to get angry, its a lot easier to get the temperature rising on your forehead as you look to puff yourself up at all the indignancies that have 'come against you'... when you fact... perhaps the crap just comes...
and we just have to learn to 'deal with it'.
so what does it mean to 'deal with it?'...
id like to think that dealing with 'stuff'... when life gets severely crapazoidal (not to be confused with trapezoidal-- which i think has something to do with pythagoras (hehe)
WHAT DO WE FREAKIN DO THEN?
There has to be a better way.
Ok. I pray.
For real.
For most however, that answer isnt 'good enough'.
But what does 'praying' actually try to achieve anyways?
Does it point to
1) A God that seeks to have a personal relationship with his creation...
2) A God that wants us to talk to him
3) A God that desires to see his creation seek him first
4) to recognise that we are human and that we need God
5) to understand that the dynamics of a world that is seemingly destroying itself... and that there must be a higher power involved in all this... and that he can hopefully make it better
These are just some really basic ideas on what i have learned and perceive as praying...
i have found a great website that has some really inspiring quotes that may help you on your journey should you start considering 'chatting' to God. And yes, you may feel like you're talking to yourself initially, but he is there. Really. He is!
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
William Law
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