"Follow your bliss." Joseph Campbell
“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die.” Jesus
If ignorance is bliss and we follow it simply because it makes us happy now, we may be in store for some unpleasant surprises later. Wisdom tells us to consider if what makes us happy is also wholesome. While I believe that God cares deeply about our happiness, like any good parent He wants us to possess the right kind of happiness. If what makes me happy is ultimately not wholesome, He is surely not going to approve of it. We cannot use our bliss as a measure of what is good and right and true. Everything that is good and right and true is the horse that should pull the cart of our bliss. Conversations Within ts 6/23/2012 (Camp Farrington AL)
Just me trying to be honest with God.
"Follow your bliss." Joseph Campbell
"Follow your bliss." Joseph Campbell
“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die.” Jesus
If ignorance is bliss and we follow it simply because it makes us happy now, we may be in store for some unpleasant surprises later. Wisdom tells us to consider if what makes us happy is also wholesome. While I believe that God cares deeply about our happiness, like any good parent He wants us to possess the right kind of happiness. If what makes me happy is ultimately not wholesome, He is surely not going to approve of it. We cannot use our bliss as a measure of what is good and right and true. Everything that is good and right and true is the horse that should pull the cart of our bliss. Conversations Within ts 6/23/2012 (Camp Farrington AL)
“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die.” Jesus
If ignorance is bliss and we follow it simply because it makes us happy now, we may be in store for some unpleasant surprises later. Wisdom tells us to consider if what makes us happy is also wholesome. While I believe that God cares deeply about our happiness, like any good parent He wants us to possess the right kind of happiness. If what makes me happy is ultimately not wholesome, He is surely not going to approve of it. We cannot use our bliss as a measure of what is good and right and true. Everything that is good and right and true is the horse that should pull the cart of our bliss. Conversations Within ts 6/23/2012 (Camp Farrington AL)
“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” Anonymous
“The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself in love.” Galatians 5
The proactive life is the best approach to living. I believe this because pro activity is the nature of love and loving and being loved has convinced me that love is life. I do not refer to romantic love--mood and feelings but the love which seeks to bless. Imagine the joy of rising each day to aggressively love people; to seek goodness for yourself and others. Some goals are worthy of pursuit, some are not. I suppose love can help us decide which are which. This is just another way of saying that God will help us decide simply because “God is love.” Conversations Within ts 6/21/2012 (Camp Farrington, AL)
The proactive life is the best approach to living. I believe this because pro activity is the nature of love and loving and being loved has convinced me that love is life. I do not refer to romantic love--mood and feelings but the love which seeks to bless. Imagine the joy of rising each day to aggressively love people; to seek goodness for yourself and others. Some goals are worthy of pursuit, some are not. I suppose love can help us decide which are which. This is just another way of saying that God will help us decide simply because “God is love.” Conversations Within ts 6/21/2012 (Camp Farrington, AL)
“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.” Anonymous
“The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself in love.” Galatians 5
The proactive life is the best approach to living. I believe this because pro activity is the nature of love and loving and being loved has convinced me that love is life. I do not refer to romantic love--mood and feelings but the love which seeks to bless. Imagine the joy of rising each day to aggressively love people; to seek goodness for yourself and others. Some goals are worthy of pursuit, some are not. I suppose love can help us decide which are which. This is just another way of saying that God will help us decide simply because “God is love.” Conversations Within ts 6/21/2012 (Camp Farrington, AL)
The proactive life is the best approach to living. I believe this because pro activity is the nature of love and loving and being loved has convinced me that love is life. I do not refer to romantic love--mood and feelings but the love which seeks to bless. Imagine the joy of rising each day to aggressively love people; to seek goodness for yourself and others. Some goals are worthy of pursuit, some are not. I suppose love can help us decide which are which. This is just another way of saying that God will help us decide simply because “God is love.” Conversations Within ts 6/21/2012 (Camp Farrington, AL)
"I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me.” Bede Griffiths
""For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." Jesus
I think God graciously meets people where they are. He intends to lead them up from there if they will follow Him. My own relationship began with a fear of Hell and my belief that because God had the bigger stick I could not do some of the things I wanted to do. Over time I began to realize that even though He was willing to use my primitive fears, fear did not define the kind of relationship He wanted with me. He introduced me to love. I have also come to find, like so many, that He is the initiator and I the responder. He is the first cause and my faith the effect. He leads this dance of delight and I clumsily follow. I can't wait to see where all this winds up. Conversations Within ts 6/21/2012 (Camp Farrington, AL)
I think God graciously meets people where they are. He intends to lead them up from there if they will follow Him. My own relationship began with a fear of Hell and my belief that because God had the bigger stick I could not do some of the things I wanted to do. Over time I began to realize that even though He was willing to use my primitive fears, fear did not define the kind of relationship He wanted with me. He introduced me to love. I have also come to find, like so many, that He is the initiator and I the responder. He is the first cause and my faith the effect. He leads this dance of delight and I clumsily follow. I can't wait to see where all this winds up. Conversations Within ts 6/21/2012 (Camp Farrington, AL)
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