100 post-day
For my 100th post, I would like to say thanks. Thanks to the gods for the blessings in my life...thanks for teaching me and showing me what I need to know.
Church service this morning had a communion...which I dearly respect. However, communion days always make me feel unworthy of being alive and unworthy of partaking in the blessing of the sacrifice. It always makes me want to fast...and if I knew in advance of communion days, I would fast--to cleanse myself to make ready to ask for the blessings of gifts from the gods.
But today, though I did feel unworthy as usual and I thought that perhaps I should fast, I realized that God didn't want me to, or need me to. Today the communion was supposed to teach me something. It was supposed to teach me that I have the gift of healing and the gift of sight because I am worthy of it, because I do believe--or rather, because the gods knew that eventually in my life I would find my belief.
These things I am able to see and feel that nobody else does are sometimes a menace because nobody believes me...but that's kinda like the gods out there in their non-human realm, just because somebody doesn't believe, that doesn't change the reality of the situation.
God (whether you wanna call it Isis, or Ra, or Diana, or Jehovah, or Jesus) really does grant the believers with eternal life...now, I, personally, do not believe that this eternal life is in heaven: I think eternal life is given on earth to the believers, to those who truly have faith in that which cannot be seen. And the gods grant gifts to those who are given this eternal life...gifts that nobody else can comprehend.
For those of my friends who have the gifts...let me ask a question of you who say you don't believe in the gods or a higher spirit. What good would it do the gods to give a gift to somebody who wouldn't know how to use it? What good would it do for the gods to put somebody in your life to help you learn how to use it, if you don't listen to their teachings? Why would the gods give out "belief-based" gifts to non-believers? I don't think they would. It takes a tremendous leap of faith and belief to understand how to use and learn from the unseen gifts...why would the gods grant that gift to somebody who would never believe in it? People who aren't willing to make a leap on belief alone would not be given such gifts. Though others might not understand, though others may ridicule us for what we say we know because they do not know, though we may not understand why we've been chosen to see and do what we can see and do, and though we ourselves may never understand the full scope of what we've been given and what we can do with it, I learned one thing today and I wanted to pass it along: We were given these gifts because the gods knew that we would believe even if nobody else does.
The others can't understand, no matter how much we try to explain it to them...they can't understand because the gods have not given them the gift. And maybe, just maybe, they weren't given the gift because they don't really believe. Saying you believe and actually feeling that belief in you, are two very totally different things. They ridicule because they don't understand, and they don't understand because they weren't given the gifts from the gods. Take their ridicule as a compliment to your faith, because they weren't given the gift that you were.
No wonder so many people were burned in the Salem Witch trials...maybe the Puritans were jealous. Jealous of something they couldn't understand, because though they claimed to be in God's favor, perhaps they were not.
< /preachy rant >
Thank you for listening.
And thank you god for letting me make it home on foot, just minutes before the rain started pouring down.
Church service this morning had a communion...which I dearly respect. However, communion days always make me feel unworthy of being alive and unworthy of partaking in the blessing of the sacrifice. It always makes me want to fast...and if I knew in advance of communion days, I would fast--to cleanse myself to make ready to ask for the blessings of gifts from the gods.
But today, though I did feel unworthy as usual and I thought that perhaps I should fast, I realized that God didn't want me to, or need me to. Today the communion was supposed to teach me something. It was supposed to teach me that I have the gift of healing and the gift of sight because I am worthy of it, because I do believe--or rather, because the gods knew that eventually in my life I would find my belief.
These things I am able to see and feel that nobody else does are sometimes a menace because nobody believes me...but that's kinda like the gods out there in their non-human realm, just because somebody doesn't believe, that doesn't change the reality of the situation.
God (whether you wanna call it Isis, or Ra, or Diana, or Jehovah, or Jesus) really does grant the believers with eternal life...now, I, personally, do not believe that this eternal life is in heaven: I think eternal life is given on earth to the believers, to those who truly have faith in that which cannot be seen. And the gods grant gifts to those who are given this eternal life...gifts that nobody else can comprehend.
For those of my friends who have the gifts...let me ask a question of you who say you don't believe in the gods or a higher spirit. What good would it do the gods to give a gift to somebody who wouldn't know how to use it? What good would it do for the gods to put somebody in your life to help you learn how to use it, if you don't listen to their teachings? Why would the gods give out "belief-based" gifts to non-believers? I don't think they would. It takes a tremendous leap of faith and belief to understand how to use and learn from the unseen gifts...why would the gods grant that gift to somebody who would never believe in it? People who aren't willing to make a leap on belief alone would not be given such gifts. Though others might not understand, though others may ridicule us for what we say we know because they do not know, though we may not understand why we've been chosen to see and do what we can see and do, and though we ourselves may never understand the full scope of what we've been given and what we can do with it, I learned one thing today and I wanted to pass it along: We were given these gifts because the gods knew that we would believe even if nobody else does.
The others can't understand, no matter how much we try to explain it to them...they can't understand because the gods have not given them the gift. And maybe, just maybe, they weren't given the gift because they don't really believe. Saying you believe and actually feeling that belief in you, are two very totally different things. They ridicule because they don't understand, and they don't understand because they weren't given the gifts from the gods. Take their ridicule as a compliment to your faith, because they weren't given the gift that you were.
No wonder so many people were burned in the Salem Witch trials...maybe the Puritans were jealous. Jealous of something they couldn't understand, because though they claimed to be in God's favor, perhaps they were not.
< /preachy rant >
Thank you for listening.
And thank you god for letting me make it home on foot, just minutes before the rain started pouring down.
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