Semi Randomness
The Bible says that Heaven is a place of never ending newness.
All of my life I have loved to learn new things. When I look back on the things I have been part of due to a desire to learn or know, It boggles my mind. I can't imagine a time in my life when I haven't been actively immersed in learning and knowing and experiencing. I know no other way really.
Did I learn more when I was under duress? No. Did I learn less? Not really. I learned more about things I didn't want to know about at those times, that's for sure. Things that have made me of use to others more than if my existence were purely happy and free. Those lessons cost more "damage points" to my person and my heart but they definitely consist of a higher specific gravity and are much more infused with my soul. The good times are magnified by the bad ones. Without suffering, good times are diminished.
The fact that I won't know everything there is to know before I die really distresses me sometimes. At other times the immensity of available knowledge is comforting.
Human beings are fearfully and wonderfully made. Nations, regimes, buildings, paradigms, schools of thought, are all temporary. The only eternal things in this world are people. We sit in our countries, in our chairs, in the buildings, in current situations, and interact with eternal beings all the time, without fully grasping the gravity of what we are doing.....Oh well, at some point, realization will set in I imagine. It comes and goes with me.
As C.S. Lewis has said, we are far too easily pleased.
All of my life I have loved to learn new things. When I look back on the things I have been part of due to a desire to learn or know, It boggles my mind. I can't imagine a time in my life when I haven't been actively immersed in learning and knowing and experiencing. I know no other way really.
Did I learn more when I was under duress? No. Did I learn less? Not really. I learned more about things I didn't want to know about at those times, that's for sure. Things that have made me of use to others more than if my existence were purely happy and free. Those lessons cost more "damage points" to my person and my heart but they definitely consist of a higher specific gravity and are much more infused with my soul. The good times are magnified by the bad ones. Without suffering, good times are diminished.
The fact that I won't know everything there is to know before I die really distresses me sometimes. At other times the immensity of available knowledge is comforting.
Human beings are fearfully and wonderfully made. Nations, regimes, buildings, paradigms, schools of thought, are all temporary. The only eternal things in this world are people. We sit in our countries, in our chairs, in the buildings, in current situations, and interact with eternal beings all the time, without fully grasping the gravity of what we are doing.....Oh well, at some point, realization will set in I imagine. It comes and goes with me.
As C.S. Lewis has said, we are far too easily pleased.