Dear World,
It was recently that it was brought up to me, by my little brother, that he disagreed with me. On what subject matter are we talking? That is the subject of love. When I was just a bit older than him I got a crazy idea in my head. That is that it was impossible for someone in my position to even know what love is. He felt the same way recently while I had just progressed to realizing that it isn't impossible to know. Obviously he had taken that I felt that I was completely and truly and perfectly in love with a girl. Though my feelings on that subject are quite strong, it wasn't exactly why I posted that I had found out what love was. No, especially not on your crazy site called facebook. The truth is that I realized what love was when it was pushed directly in my face. Something I should have seen when I was a lot younger.
Love is something beyond feelings. Beyond human capability in fact, due to original sin. However it can still be accomplished through the grace of God. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves." This of course doesn't really help because we all can quote the bible. But what does help with is realizing, not only that you can know love even early on, but that God didn't make it some hard to find grace. It's charity. It's friendship. Love is intertwined deep within humans through the grace of God. For most people it's not that they don't know what love is. Rather, it's that they have difficulty knowing how to show it.
How is it possible for us to know how to show love? That itself is also simple. We must look back at Jesus Christ. His love was so absolute. To show love ask yourself "Would Christ do this if he was in my position." If we follow that in everything we do, we will learn how to truly show our love for each other. He showed the ultimate love, beyond that of anyone else, by having himself crucified to save us. This my friends is true love. It's the perfect example to show it to. Humans, even at early stages, can learn to truly show their love by looking at this perfect example. God didn't make it into Rocket Science. Otherwise we my have the problem of not knowing him. He wanted us to seek knowledge, and he didn't make it that hard to find most of the answers we seek. It isn't possible for me to love a girl truly. No, in fact it's easier than most people would think. I just have the incline to treat her as Christ would. That is true love. So go on now loving your neighbors as yourself as Christ proposed and don't just treat them as you would yourself, but treat them as Christ would.
Your Simple Atom,
The College Student
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
The Route to Being Right
Dear World,
You haven't been too bad lately. Quite a few gunners on the loose but they haven't made big news because they haven't been big shootings. Still we must try hard to pray for the souls of the departed. Let us now look into the temptations of being wrong. You are yourself, and when you believe something and for that reason to you it seems right. This then becomes your opinion. This opinion however must be correct or incorrect. Take the existence of God. Sure, it may be your opinion that he doesn't exist. But it's not that he doesn't exist for you but he does for others. He either does exist or doesn't. Therefore don't go about asserting just your opinion. There is something more needed than opinions from your crazy mind. For one of you will be right, and if God does exist a soul could be saved if one were lead to believe in Him. Like this there is the problem of chance, which I shall save for a later date, as its existence is not pertinent with this letter.
Now after finding that your opinion isn't important to the matter of truth let us look at the problem with believing that you are always right. For one have you given the sources of your correctness? Most arguments lead into battles that don't provide proof for their correctness. If you provide the proof than you prove your belief. But if you don't, you provide your opinion. Faith itself is much stronger than any opinion you can find. Therefore next time you feel right, while the other is wrong have faith. Your opinion won't ever be as appreciated as your faith. Prove that you fly without error, not that you get aggravated at the others ignorance. They may not be as ignorant as you opinionate, because they might actually have decent faith. Whether the faith is true or false doesn't matter because it still has the added proof.
This faith is not the faith you wish to debate after reading that previous point. This simple faith is proven. There is also another faith, which is more to have faith in someone. This cannot be proven as sure by mere science. This deeper faith is proven through grace. Grace either received from One higher than us, or through actions done in our favor. This faith includes that faith which you believe based off of how it has changed your life. Not how it has been proven to you. Nor should it be. For if a friend must prove their friendship to you through science, what kind of a friend would that be? But if you have faith that they are truly your friend, than that faith is allowed to grow into love. That love then expands into hope. This route will lead you to a truth stronger than even the lesser proven faith. But keep in mind, don't let this faith either be opinion. For if it is your opinion that he is your friend, but it is not his opinion that he is your friend, is he really your friend? I think not.
Therefore World, do not be lost in the rightness of your opinions. But be found in the correctness of your faith. Grow both your lesser and higher faiths until through both one just needs to look at you to know the truth. Use the proof of your lesser faith to point out flaws in the arguer. Use the true-ness of your higher faith to show your correct. That is the route to being right.
Your Simple Atom,
The College Student
You haven't been too bad lately. Quite a few gunners on the loose but they haven't made big news because they haven't been big shootings. Still we must try hard to pray for the souls of the departed. Let us now look into the temptations of being wrong. You are yourself, and when you believe something and for that reason to you it seems right. This then becomes your opinion. This opinion however must be correct or incorrect. Take the existence of God. Sure, it may be your opinion that he doesn't exist. But it's not that he doesn't exist for you but he does for others. He either does exist or doesn't. Therefore don't go about asserting just your opinion. There is something more needed than opinions from your crazy mind. For one of you will be right, and if God does exist a soul could be saved if one were lead to believe in Him. Like this there is the problem of chance, which I shall save for a later date, as its existence is not pertinent with this letter.
Now after finding that your opinion isn't important to the matter of truth let us look at the problem with believing that you are always right. For one have you given the sources of your correctness? Most arguments lead into battles that don't provide proof for their correctness. If you provide the proof than you prove your belief. But if you don't, you provide your opinion. Faith itself is much stronger than any opinion you can find. Therefore next time you feel right, while the other is wrong have faith. Your opinion won't ever be as appreciated as your faith. Prove that you fly without error, not that you get aggravated at the others ignorance. They may not be as ignorant as you opinionate, because they might actually have decent faith. Whether the faith is true or false doesn't matter because it still has the added proof.
This faith is not the faith you wish to debate after reading that previous point. This simple faith is proven. There is also another faith, which is more to have faith in someone. This cannot be proven as sure by mere science. This deeper faith is proven through grace. Grace either received from One higher than us, or through actions done in our favor. This faith includes that faith which you believe based off of how it has changed your life. Not how it has been proven to you. Nor should it be. For if a friend must prove their friendship to you through science, what kind of a friend would that be? But if you have faith that they are truly your friend, than that faith is allowed to grow into love. That love then expands into hope. This route will lead you to a truth stronger than even the lesser proven faith. But keep in mind, don't let this faith either be opinion. For if it is your opinion that he is your friend, but it is not his opinion that he is your friend, is he really your friend? I think not.
Therefore World, do not be lost in the rightness of your opinions. But be found in the correctness of your faith. Grow both your lesser and higher faiths until through both one just needs to look at you to know the truth. Use the proof of your lesser faith to point out flaws in the arguer. Use the true-ness of your higher faith to show your correct. That is the route to being right.
Your Simple Atom,
The College Student
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Boulders from the sky
Dear World,
It is today like any day that I find myself quite displeased with you and wish to send you a message. Not that today was a bad day, but it had it's definite boulders that tended to collide with my hot head. The day began well, partaking in His feast. It was quick to crash by the simple misunderstandings of life. About an hour later my beliefs and prayers made it through. I jumped back before the next boulder hit my head. This being about the twentieth boulder to drop would have been a finisher. But at last it was deemed not necessary and all got better. Quickly I scurried to my nest and got to work on the important things that are required of me. Before long my time was up though, and a meal was needed. This meal lasted longer than it should have and I decided to invite my companions to finish their necessities with me, that would be in a group. This exciting time went well, and I finished before everyone left. Now as I write two of my companions left, and two remain. I find the company quite pleasant and pleasing. One companion strangely believed the invite was for slumber. Slumber being a necessity it works, but I shall write of that at a later date. The important thing to remember is that boulders like to fall on our heads. The best thing to do is to keep your smarts. More boulders will befall you until you decide to be smart and dodge them. Once dodged they are easy to recover from. It is not the same boulder that keeps attacking and getting worse. It is that you are weakened to other boulders at the time of one hitting. In order to remember to dodge them one must find a slice of chocolate cake. This remedy being a symbol for something much greater. For He is great, He gives us chocolate cake. If one forgets this simple pleasure they might determine it hard to dodge the boulder. But if they remember this simple pleasure, and are in their right mind of liking chocolate cake, then they will easily dodge the boulder.
Your Simple Atom,
The College Student
It is today like any day that I find myself quite displeased with you and wish to send you a message. Not that today was a bad day, but it had it's definite boulders that tended to collide with my hot head. The day began well, partaking in His feast. It was quick to crash by the simple misunderstandings of life. About an hour later my beliefs and prayers made it through. I jumped back before the next boulder hit my head. This being about the twentieth boulder to drop would have been a finisher. But at last it was deemed not necessary and all got better. Quickly I scurried to my nest and got to work on the important things that are required of me. Before long my time was up though, and a meal was needed. This meal lasted longer than it should have and I decided to invite my companions to finish their necessities with me, that would be in a group. This exciting time went well, and I finished before everyone left. Now as I write two of my companions left, and two remain. I find the company quite pleasant and pleasing. One companion strangely believed the invite was for slumber. Slumber being a necessity it works, but I shall write of that at a later date. The important thing to remember is that boulders like to fall on our heads. The best thing to do is to keep your smarts. More boulders will befall you until you decide to be smart and dodge them. Once dodged they are easy to recover from. It is not the same boulder that keeps attacking and getting worse. It is that you are weakened to other boulders at the time of one hitting. In order to remember to dodge them one must find a slice of chocolate cake. This remedy being a symbol for something much greater. For He is great, He gives us chocolate cake. If one forgets this simple pleasure they might determine it hard to dodge the boulder. But if they remember this simple pleasure, and are in their right mind of liking chocolate cake, then they will easily dodge the boulder.
Your Simple Atom,
The College Student
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