My Friend

My friend doesn't understand the importance of mystery, they joy found in the incomprehensible. He does not look up at the stars and say "Wow!" He does not see a buttercup in a field and begin to skip for joy. He cannot see that forgiveness is liberating. He cannot comprehend that to believe is not to see. He fails to grasp the concept of faith.

My friend worries only about practicalities. He wants proof. He needs something tangible. He looks up at the stars and talks about red shift and blue shift and the Time-Space Continuum. He sees a buttercup in the field and couldn't care less. He does not believe in sin and redemption. He says he needs to see to believe. He says he can do a better job than God.

My friend despises suffering. He wants people to live forever happily. My friend believes in the power of words, but does not see the force of actions. That's why my friend moans a lot and seems to do very little.

My friend is one of the best I have, but I hope that one day soon he sees a buttercup and begins to skip.

A New Dawn

I can't be bothered with setting days to do stuff. I don't have enough to write about. But I shall try to do two posts a week.

I think this recession is a farce. It is stupid that people of great significance in this world cannot manage to recognise patterns of failure and then not copy them.

In the 1930's the USA and much of the rest of the world experienced a depression. It was, rather idiotically, labelled "The Great Depression", as if it was some kind of wondrous achievement of enormous virtue and happiness. Instead it was actually a time when families struggled to feed their children.

This was brought about because of the excessive lending in the 1920's, when prosperity seemed to flow.

So now, because our economy has again accomplished a terrible collapse because of lending, we are going to borrow our way out of it.

We live in a world who's leaders are wise beyond their years, I am sure of it. Why else would they be so obviously stupid? They clearly have an Ace up their sleeve. I hope.

Questions

I apologise for my lack of blog posts. I got fed up because only two or three people read them. But I decided I need to do this one.

Two questions have plagued me recently, the first being on that has niggled for a very long time, the second being one I, foolishly, only recently understood the significance of.

1. (It is a little more complex than this, but...) If I'm in Heaven forever, won't I get bored?

2. Why would God, an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being, bother to make a people like us, then put them in charge of such an unnecessarily complex planet? Is it not just a little arrogant to assume that this is the case?

I hope these are food for thought. Enjoy your evening.