The Scrum of Our Beliefs

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The Scrum of our Beliefs
Copyright 2017 Don Ray

Inter-human interactions…..

no experience comes closer to knowing God.

No experience can so promptly and radically drive us away from all that is holy.

We may see God in those interactions if we have already made God’s acquaintance. 

We may in those inter-human interactions see the reason for hell. 

There, in the grip of the handshake or the blow of the fist, we will feel whatever of God is within us and will sense the Void only God can fill.

In our interactions with and responses to our fellow humanity we will experience the breadth of goodness and the depths of evil. 

It is there, there in the interactions with our fellow children of God, that the questions of the ages will arise and the contradictory answers will be lost.

There, there in the confusion and conflict of the scrum of our beliefs, we find our redemption and salvation in the ample opportunities for compassion and forgiveness.

Copyright 2017 Don Ray
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Surrender is the culmination of spiritual courage.

We cannot receive answers from God until we give up the answers we want.

Let yourself get a little lost that you might discover what you could never imagine.

All this physical life is after all merely a parable, a corporeal telling of a tale with meanings disguised, a momentary riddle condensing truths eternal.

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Winning Versus Conquering

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In politics you can win by uniting or conquer by dividing.

The former benefits the nation, the latter benefits the powerful.

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Symphony of Chance

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Symphony of Chance

Hear the chimes,

that penetrating sound,

the sound of wind instantiated.

Harmonious, ethereal sound

released by impact

            and collision.

Hear the chimes,

allow their ringing to

            penetrate,

a purity of frequency

from which to build

            a world.

Let others wrestle with

            meanings

Light

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Light
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So inconvenient,

 these physical forms,

so inconvenient.

The Light barely penetrates the surface,

leaving us to our madness.

Occasional sparks and flickers

are promptly quenched,

for no one likes change.

We are used to the dark,

Digital Disruption

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Do these times not till the soil to plant seeds of reassurance? 

The digital disruption has unleashed the worst of human nature and created levels of illusion and delusion and detachment never before experienced.

Never have people been so compelled and even coerced to look happier.

Never have people felt so lost and alone.

A pandemic of digital detachment has left us isolated from reality and each other.

Never have we had such opportunity for connection and communication.  Never have our connections and communication been so shallow and superficial.

We have created a societal sham when we need substance; we stand on shifting sand of fads and trends when we need foundations secure and solid.  The fog of the superficial hides the substance.  The glare of the shallow blinds us to solid reality. 

Death of Personal Growth

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Prodding people to personal growth.  Now there is a thankless task!...and often as not a hopeless task.

Yet the growth happens, by confluence of pain and shock and disruption, somehow the personal growth happens.

We survive.  We go on, blindly of course.  And somehow personal growth happens.

Not for everyone, not smoothly, not predictably, and certainly not voluntarily.

How simple it should be!  Simply be open to wisdom, seek and absorb all the wisdom you can, objectively weigh conflicting claims, and ferret out the wheat from the chaff.