Knowing God

I wish that in my "Information" section on facebook, I could have come up with some nice creative way of describing my religious views. It makes me jealous to read all the wonderful things that fellow heathens have come up with to voice their religious preferences. But in the end, I'm just a messed-up no-nothing when it comes to the God stuff. I mean... what's wrong with saying: "I don't know. Waiting for further instructions."? What is it about religion that makes us think we can or even have to know everything, or for that matter anything about God?

Jesus said something about the kingdom of God being here among us. He was saying that forgiveness brings heaven to someones life and harboring sin brings about hell. Right here and now. He showed us that God is walking amongst us, and told us to go out and live the same. We aren't to wait for Jesus to bring God to people. Our job is to be God to people. Right now! And I'm glad that this looks much more "normal" than I used to think it did.

In the end, like it says in Psalms: are we not all gods?

Things said...

Changing, becoming a different person was harder last year. Life as I knew it had ended. Years, of what I thought to be time well invested rendered, for the time meaningless. A new code of meaning and importance has since been developing inside of me. Life is much less complicated and quite a bit more enjoyable. 

Being able to laugh about the mundane and not have a bad conscience about being shallow most of the time. I think it's a gift. At least for now. So much time has been spent thinking about how to convince someone of a new way of thinking, that I right like my new found freedom to just listen to other ways of thinking, and doing less of the stuff myself.   

Life is great!

I have never felt this liberated. It is good to be with my wife and my children. It is good to be a husband and a daddy, without a higher calling than the one place before me everyday. I am content. ;-)