Meant to be Here?

[kanadjin]

I was reading The Daily today and saw the advertisement "how'd you get here" which is meant to inform us of which advertising scheme worked in attracting us to Prov. This led me to think of my story, why I came to Prov. It all began back in grade eleven when my band teacher came into Gimli Video, and saw me watching Zoolander, (for probably the

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[gloriamarilyn]

*hugs* I understand, dear. It's not easy to question things, and it sucks like all get out to stand out. I've sometimes thought that I would like to go back to ignorance, but...I can't. There's a reason that I'm at this place, and I have to make the best of it. When it really comes down to it, tho, I enjoy thinking and ranting. It's fun! :)

Give me a call sometime, or come visit. Maybe you just need a bit of a "Prov break". haha...

[insidegrace]

I am glad we met. I faced many of the same problems in my last at Prov... I have no easy answers for you and you wouldn't want them anyway. Hang in there... I wish i had something more profound to say but i'm doped up on cold medicine.

[gloriamarilyn]

Oh yeah, and I'm terribly glad I met you at Prov! :) I think I come away with you as one of my dearest friends, so yes... that's definitely a plus from that! :D

aww

[gloriamarilyn]

Thank you both, Sarah and Gloria. You two have both been amasing friends!

[susannah]

I'm reading your posts too, Justin (and they're sane and reasonable, even if this one conveyed your dejected mood).

When I get down, I try to switch onto the 'automatic pilot' of spirituality: kindness and love. I find - at times when I'm confused or spiritually struggling - that to just find ways of showing a few people love and kindness not only blesses them (hopefully) but reminds me of the reality of spirituality... and the precious reality at the heart of our being and how we can live.

To me, Jesus conveys the summing up of religion in loving and kindness.

Then, when I recall this, I think how much I'd tied myself up with thinking, when all the time, Godde waits for us to open our hearts to the simple flow of love.

Richard (S)

Thank you

[susannah]

Thank you for responding, I often find myself more and more tempted to use the autopilot function of faith and love. I usually find it to also be the most spiritually enriching, just sometimes i have a desire to learn more abut my faith(defining what I believe and what I do not), instead of simply going.
I must say though, that the more I read your blog I find myself thinking that we agree on many points, I think I could say pretty much all of the points you make. I want to one day type a full letter of my beliefs, but now that I am currently a resident assistant at a Christian college, I feel that I cannot come against what the school says it believes, especially since I do not keep my entries to "friends only" and anyone has access to read my account. So, maybe in the summer I will be able to write my own statement of faith.

As an aside, my school is putting on a lecture about losing one's faith in a christian college, Ironically it is in the professor-who-is-giving-the lecture's class that my faith began taking many hits.

[eeyore740]

I am so glad we both decided to come to Prov, and I am always happy for our times of rants. You have been one of the driving forces that made me think about why I believed certain things. Yes CMck did throw everything I had believed out the window the first day of Old Testament, but you have kept challenging me through our discussions, and for that I am grateful.

thanks

[eeyore740]

Everything you believed in the first day!! Wow! Well, I am glad that i have been a challenging person in your life who has gotten you to think about what you believe. Hopefully it is a good thing.