Rocks. Duh.
Posted on 03/17/2014 6:27:32 AM PDT by chinaboy
I'm confused!
I’m so happy I could nuke someone.
“The key to happiness is to be deceitful, manipulative, and self-serving. They say mankind has a God-shaped hole in our hearts — fill it with cheap sex, booze, partying, video games, drugs, hookers, random assaults, and chlamydiae. There is only one way to Spiritual Enlightentment: Fornication and lawlessness. Be cruel. Be angry, and do so for no reason. Cuss at people and taunt them, identifying shortcomings then ridiculing them for those. Hate everyone, eat way too much, sleep in and call in sick to work. Despise small animals, clear forest for no reason, cause division and strife whereever you go.”
I did all that and more, and there was still room for God.
Now it’s a life of been there done that, and can’t wait to glorify God again because, everything else really is fun but all of it has sad ends, except God in Jesus Christ.
Nuke DC please if you must.
There is no meaning. Life is.
Did you try stomping kittens with hobnail boots?
26 4 Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.”
27
God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.”
29
God also said: “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food;
30 and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food.” And so it happened.
31
God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__P3.HTM
Great, just what I needed, more temptation...you are a bastard.
Get behind me!
Wait....that means confusing things in this day and age.
Man, I got to go. You win.
Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you’ve had quite enough...
Just, remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself, contains a hundred billion stars
It’s a hundred thousand light years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us its just three thousand light years wide
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is
So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
Cause there’s bugger-all down here on Earth
Life is like an ice cream cone: you must learn to lick it.
“Ev-er-ry sperm is sa-cred... ev-er-ry sperm is great...”
According to Tom T. Hall, it’s faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money?
Damn. The truth is never so simple.
Sometimes you worry me. :)
Rocks. Duh.
Truly, GOD wants you to examine your heart and come to HIM to know what life really means.
So work. Then go out and help people that would appreciate having you around to help.
Housing hope may be the answer, or there’s a branch of that which provides temporary shelter for families where both parents are out of work and the family needs a place to stay until one of them finds work.
It could be anything, but NOTHING is better than going out and helping people that appreciate being helped.
Helping at a Children’s hospital for a couple of hours on a weekend will change your perspective. Watch some kid with burns on over fifty percent of his body find the ability to laugh at jokes his Dad is teling him over the phone.
Then you’ll hear Him say, “I know where you are. I know what you need. Feed my sheep. My yoke is light.”
He will find you where you are.
Get the focus off of you and your situation, and help those less fortunate. Right now, the illusion is that nobody could (at the moment) be less fortunate than you.
Volunteer at a VA Hospital, and see if that adds some data to your analysis. You will be a hero to them. A hero.
There are women looking for good men out there. Many of good women are out doing the same thing you are - helping people who need it.
Start small - do one significant thing to help somebody other than you that takes an hour or more. One small project. See how you feel walking away from that.
One unexpected benefit of that is that eventually your daughter will make their own decisions about who they want to spend their time with, and they will keep tabs on what you do and who you are. If the way you live doesn’t jibe with the way your wife SAYS you live, it won’t matter, because in the end they can believe your wife, or their own lying eyes.
Read Matthew Chapter 6, the entire chapter. It all applies. It will make you feel better immediately, but you’ve got to seek first God, then ALL THESE THINGS will happen unto you.
God is in the sick. God is in the children. God is in the mentally ill. God is the weak. God is in the hungry.
You have your work. You have everything.
Now go find God, and speak with Him.
He will shock you in His response. You will be overwhelmed and shamed. If you are like me, you’ll forget about His generosity and go on living like I am the most important person to worry about again.
You are not. God’s people are. Take care of them with your time and your enthusiasm and He will pave mountains from your path. Ranges of mountains.
I have seen this with my own eyes, yet I continue to focus only on myself.
Don’t be like me, if you can help it.
Matthew 6, ASAP.
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