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
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