I'm thinking about what I want to do with my life. Fortunately no six-fingered man killed my Father when I was eleven. Unfortunately that leaves a certain hole in the velocity of my life.
So, I am considering. I thought about doing more writing, but I'm not sure I'm that good at it.
I thought about teaching, but what degree to do?
I thought about being an estate agent, then the credit ate a Crunchie.
I thought about being a banker.
I didn't really.
Honestly, I didn't. It has too much association with greed and self-serving, which is not what being a Christian is about (for me, anyhow; some right wingers might disagree but I think they need to read what Jesus said, though I'm now being a hypocrite since I am typing on a computer I haven't sold. I am rambling. I apologise. Well done if you kept up. Because I'm lost).
So, I have decided to continue as I am for now. Perhaps I will soon have a revelation. Perhaps not.
I am aware this blog wasn't about much in particular, but if you're stuck about what to do, so am I. Just so you know.
Monday 27 April 2009
Monday 13 April 2009
The Possibilities are Endless
I watched a programme about Maths the other week. Maths being the tool of physics, the programme ended up considering the shape of the universe. They seemed to think that, like pacman, if you go out one side you come back in the other. This, they believed, applies to light as well. So they concluded that one of the stars out there might be a younger version of our sun. I went one step further and considered:
What if millions of the stars out there are younger versions of our sun? What if there are really only about fifty stars in the whole universe, and we are just seeing each one hundreds of times over?
That would be pretty cool. Our Universe is awesome. I mean, it takes recycling to a new level.
"Recycle light, the possible star constellations are endless."
What if millions of the stars out there are younger versions of our sun? What if there are really only about fifty stars in the whole universe, and we are just seeing each one hundreds of times over?
That would be pretty cool. Our Universe is awesome. I mean, it takes recycling to a new level.
"Recycle light, the possible star constellations are endless."
A Bit of What I Believe (at this present time, subject to change, terms and conditions apply)
I was listening to Five Live this morning.
(I feel a small aside is necessary here:
My brother thinks that Radio Four is better than Five Live because it is more intellectual. I think that people who are truly intelligent care about the people, and the people are more interested in Five Live. I also think that people who call themselves intellectual need to consider the word 'humility'. But I am being judgmental and therefore hypocritical, I'm sure. Incidentally, someone told me the other day that anyting completely logical is always contradictory, or collapses in on itself or something. I wonder whether the person who worked that out did so logically.)
They were asking the question,
"What do you believe?"
This made me think, and realise that I have recently come very far in my beliefs and my certainty of them.
For a long time I have believed that Jesus was God's Son, came to earth and was resurrected.
It is the niggly bits in between that have caused me problems.
Now I think that Jesus lived and died not only to forgive sins but for so much more.
Jesus showed us how to be compassionate, how to love, how to protest, how to forgive, how to guide, how to teach, how to give, how to serve, how to think and how to serve.
Jesus showed us how to follow God the way God wants us to follow him.
One of the niggly bits is 'Why does God want us to follow him?' but I think that that is almost irrelevant, because I am awed and stupefied by the fact he wants me to follow him.
Jesus came to begin the salvation of the world, and the rest of wondrous creation that we might live as God first intended.
As you can see I believe Jesus was pretty important. There are a lot of things I don't know, and I wonder at, like God being omnipotent and omniscient and not thinking through the fall. But this is the nature of faith, and I think it is faith that brings about change (even if, unfortunately and too often tragically, not for the better), because faith in ideals and the future and mankind and even selfish faith in ourselves is what has made humans progress (if that is an appropriate word for the ruin we've made this incredible planet) so far. This is why I continue to believe; faith may have been a large part of our downfall, but it is faith that will be the reason for our revival.
(I feel a small aside is necessary here:
My brother thinks that Radio Four is better than Five Live because it is more intellectual. I think that people who are truly intelligent care about the people, and the people are more interested in Five Live. I also think that people who call themselves intellectual need to consider the word 'humility'. But I am being judgmental and therefore hypocritical, I'm sure. Incidentally, someone told me the other day that anyting completely logical is always contradictory, or collapses in on itself or something. I wonder whether the person who worked that out did so logically.)
They were asking the question,
"What do you believe?"
This made me think, and realise that I have recently come very far in my beliefs and my certainty of them.
For a long time I have believed that Jesus was God's Son, came to earth and was resurrected.
It is the niggly bits in between that have caused me problems.
Now I think that Jesus lived and died not only to forgive sins but for so much more.
Jesus showed us how to be compassionate, how to love, how to protest, how to forgive, how to guide, how to teach, how to give, how to serve, how to think and how to serve.
Jesus showed us how to follow God the way God wants us to follow him.
One of the niggly bits is 'Why does God want us to follow him?' but I think that that is almost irrelevant, because I am awed and stupefied by the fact he wants me to follow him.
Jesus came to begin the salvation of the world, and the rest of wondrous creation that we might live as God first intended.
As you can see I believe Jesus was pretty important. There are a lot of things I don't know, and I wonder at, like God being omnipotent and omniscient and not thinking through the fall. But this is the nature of faith, and I think it is faith that brings about change (even if, unfortunately and too often tragically, not for the better), because faith in ideals and the future and mankind and even selfish faith in ourselves is what has made humans progress (if that is an appropriate word for the ruin we've made this incredible planet) so far. This is why I continue to believe; faith may have been a large part of our downfall, but it is faith that will be the reason for our revival.
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