The only law of life and the only meaning of it is LOVE. Anything that happens has its reason. It is karmic(don't call it buddhist bullshit, there's only one God and it is people who gave him so many names)way of solving problems: you may fall ill or something bad may happen to you. It is for your own good, thus you suffer away your guilt and wrong things you may have done or thought. There's no use to complain or to feel depressive about it: you're betraying love that way. You must be strong surviving those bad things happening with you. You should try to do your best keeping love in your heart no matter what happens to you. If you can survive bad things with love and humbleness in your heart then you'll bit by bit clean your sole.
:-\ If you knew me at all, you wouldn't tell me not to call it "buddhist bullshit" -- I don't go around demeaning other people's beliefs.
I do disagree with some of what you say, and I consider it to be rather callous. I don't think it ever does anyone any good to go to them and say, "Don't feel the way you're feeling. Instead, feel this way." I also don't believe that I can clean my own soul -- I believe God does that.
However, I agree that keeping love in my heart no matter what happens is a very important goal.
Maybe you're right and I was callous telling you all this. But my point was to show you the situation from another angle that's all! Neither did I want to use an imperative mode telling you what to do. I've waited for your reply to my comment so long...
Well, I don't think it was callous in and of itself, but just that you wrote it in response to a very painful (for me) post. If you had written it just as an opinion, when I wasn't at my most hurting and vulnerable, then I wouldn't have thought it callous at all.
Sorry you've waited so long for my response, I've been very bad at responding lately.
i can't find what i was looking for. but in this little booklet i got, it had in it about when God tests people about their faith, he makes it as hard as he can, because he knows you can do it, but he needs you to search within yourself, cast all doubts to one side and believe, and to pray to him that you're finding it hard, and you feel like you're losing your faith and you're upset about it. and that when people do that, they renew their relationship with God and draws them nearer. so all my advice is, don't give up your faith. God never stops loving people, it's people that stop loving God.
I think there is a difference between a trial (test of your faith brought by God) and a wounding (harm to your soul/spirit brought by satan or other humans). God gives trials, but never woundings. If he harmed us in order to heal us, he would not be good and loving. He might bring us a lot of discomfort (like losing all our money) but never an actual wound to our soul (like rape/abuse).
I think it's a wonderful thing that you recognize questions aren't evil. Escaping from the cult I was born into was something like that: we were forcefed dogma. We weren't explicitly told there were no good questions: we were just always provided with the correct answers.
Except, of course, to: "Why?"
With faith, the most important question is Why. The entire book of Job asks Why. And you don't have to have all of your children and possessions taken from you to feel as though your soul has been stripped bare and that you have nothing left.
People who do not allow you to ask Why are not worth your time. Faith that alleges it has all the answers is worthless. If faith without works may be dead, faith without truth is a cancer.
I wish that someday you may find peace and a full, whole heart.
People who do not allow you to ask Why are not worth your time. Faith that alleges it has all the answers is worthless. If faith without works may be dead, faith without truth is a cancer.
Thank you so very much for sharing this wisdom. I was getting discouraged by the first few comments (on this and the post I linked to), and your wisdom and understanding was such a peace to me. Thank you.
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I do disagree with some of what you say, and I consider it to be rather callous. I don't think it ever does anyone any good to go to them and say, "Don't feel the way you're feeling. Instead, feel this way." I also don't believe that I can clean my own soul -- I believe God does that.
However, I agree that keeping love in my heart no matter what happens is a very important goal.
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Sorry you've waited so long for my response, I've been very bad at responding lately.
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Except, of course, to: "Why?"
With faith, the most important question is Why. The entire book of Job asks Why. And you don't have to have all of your children and possessions taken from you to feel as though your soul has been stripped bare and that you have nothing left.
People who do not allow you to ask Why are not worth your time. Faith that alleges it has all the answers is worthless. If faith without works may be dead, faith without truth is a cancer.
I wish that someday you may find peace and a full, whole heart.
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Thank you so very much for sharing this wisdom. I was getting discouraged by the first few comments (on this and the post I linked to), and your wisdom and understanding was such a peace to me. Thank you.
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Rock on ♥
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