More, more about Jesus
Currently Listening to The Fountain by Kronos Quartet, Mogwai
Christianity has been reduced to a set of rules, or, at best, a “way of life.”
Look, don’t people realize that a belief in God, and in an ability to know Him is wild and crazy stuff? How about a God who became flesh, as a baby!
Watch Space Odyssey 2001, the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Fountain, all in a marathon run. You should be shocked, awed, amazed, thrilled, impassioned, thoroughly weirded out and tired.
That is Christianity! A wild story beyond human imagination, that is true. Magnificence, power, powerful ideas, powerful feelings and mighty deeds. A story that spans the ages from before time to beyond human comprehension.
HEY! Christianity is NOT about the Republican Party. It is NOT about a list of rules or a “life style.” It is NOT a culture. It is Christ, it is the man, the God, the mystery.
Yes, all of this leads to actions, but when I say actions, I mean this: When you wake up in the morning, and open your eyes, you should look out into the future, out past the end of the your nose, past the end of the day, past the end of the year, past the end of your life, past the end of your self, past the end of the ages of this sphere, past the end of time, and then keep looking out. Then base your actions on what you see there.
When you stub your toe on the chair in the morning, that does not affect what you see there. However, when you hug your wife close to you and tell her that you love her, that does. When you lift up your child in your arms and hold her close to yourself, that does. When you eat and when you drink, that does not, but when you smile, that does.
When you look around you then, do you see all of the dust? The dust sifting out of your life? The dust in your driveway, the dust on your desk, the dust that surrounds you?
Look through all of that swirling dust that creates a dark cloud, and you will see the people, the eternal souls that are still there, lingering past the edge of time. They are real, and they matter. The people, and the thoughts and ideas that move between them are all that transcends the mountains of dust that we live among.
Yes, some of the dust is useful, and even important, but only is as much as it affects that which transcends. We must transcend, we must both continue forth into eternity, and we must affect that eternity into which we transcend. Otherwise all is futile, and nihilism becomes the only sane answer to life.
Posted 12/27/2006 12:52 PM
1 Comment:
No wonder I like you. 
I love the way you think.
Posted 12/28/2006 9:40 AM by ThoughtForFood
