Honda was on to something a while ago. It's never to late to catch onto a good concept though. The last months of life have brought on interesting challenges, and increased understanding for me. Among many things understanding of life, love, relationships, and most importantly God.
As another year goes by
another takes it's place
twelve months more of missing you
of never seeing your face
The thoughts of your smile
for the chance to hold you
I'd walk a thousand miles
I wrote this poem with wishes
and dreams that can't come true
of dreaming dreams that you were here
wishing dreams really could come true.
Can you picture it: She's one today. I can.
Life
Now you can't really summarize on life, because life is no more the same then it is different for each and every one of us. I'm always taxed with thoughts on the purpose of life. Or maybe another way to look on that, is how to live a life of purpose. Look at yourself in the mirror. Look at your friends, your family, our world. What drives us? Many things do. Are they good or bad? What is our reasoning behind these things? I'll hit at one because it's always pushed to the forefront in my life. Possesions. What we have. What we consume. Is it human nature to live like this or did one day we put love and being humble aside, and decide we always had to have more than our neighbor? Do you beleive in God's creation of the earth or do you beleive in evolution? Did either of those two things create greed? Did man create greed? Was it human nature in the 'cave age' that created greed out of a need for survival? Or did we make the cave man up, and in times of need is it not true that we are better off when we stick together, with words like share and love?
What if life was looked at and defined by what we gave away. How much we gave ourselves away. I beleive that all of us at one point in our life have been caught up chasing what we believe to be the riches of the world. Some succeed, some fail. Both lead to the same end. An end where all will be left behind; and end which bluntly tells us how foolish we were to be chasing after the wind during our days. How much you give not how much you have. Ici je suis.
Ecclesiastes 2:17-26
...What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which lavors under the sun? All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest.
...I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me
...A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for witout him, who can truly eat or find enjoyment? To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.
This all sounds a bit familiar. Maybe because Mathew was getting at it in 6:19-21
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Jump on me for the idea if you want, but keep in mind that no where in the above does it say that it is bad, "to have"; or that God wouldn't be pleased if you have more than someone else. What I'm saying is don't measure yourself to your wealth rather to your ability to humble yourself and be thankful for what you have.
 Now I've been told that the Purpose of life is to give glory to God through enjoying him. My first thought was - Pretty awesome. But what about if your not a Christian? After alot of thought I realized that whether your a Christian or not your purpose doesn't change. We don't decide our purpose. Our creator does.
Think to a time in your life where you've designed something; anything. You designed it to accomplish something to have a set purpose. Lets say you designed a car. You designed it to be a car, and that's what it's purpose is. The car can't just all of a sudden pull out of the garage one day and decide to be an airplane.
umm.. yeah. ok. well... - I think you get the idea.
For me to say, whether you are Christian or not the purpose of your life is to Give Glory to God, is extremely single minded. Here. Argue with me. What are the alternatives? Even Step it down a level... what are the alternatives to Christianity. Evolution - Man came from Monkeys?
I'm going to be completely honest with you. That idea scares me as much as this cat below being a robot:
Everyone knows of course that you can argue it both way. Will science every be able to prove the big bang? Evolution? The Bible? Is there already proof and are we just to blind to see it?
Science is continually discovering things. Things like the dead sea scrolls, things like fossils and bones. Back and forth, back and forth it can go.
By now I've heard both arguements, as I'm sure all have. I can find for myself more truth in christianity then in evolution. Do we need truths? Or is that not what Faith is all about.
Either way you choose it's a risk.
Decide for yourself which risk is cooler to take.
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