Sunday Sermonette: Because It Feels Good

[bill_sheehan]

Nobody believes in God for only one reason, no matter what they may say. In faith as in physics, you need at least three points in order to have a stable platform. Think of faith as a three-legged stool.

The first leg was learned at our mother’s knee. Most people are brought up to believe and practice the tenets of a particular religion, and seldom

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[fairy69]

You know, I have been known to use the words "divine intervention" several times in my life when things happened that I felt were so. Miracles? Maybe. I would like to believe that anyway. They were not known to me in dramatic bolt-of-lightning ways, though. For instance, the strength it took me to fight and not fall into the trap of how my mother wanted us to be - graduate high school, get a job, marry and have kids instead of going to university. The ability to FINALLY leave my ex. The love I found so organically without any efforts in terms of trying to win that love....there are other things as well that I could probably list on one piece of paper. Some would say that I just made choices but these were not easy choices and many not conscious ones. They "happened" when a very strong feeling came over me.

I want to believe these things came to me from a Higher Power. God in the Christian/Catholic sense? Maybe not.

[bill_sheehan]

I hear you. There's a beautiful song in Bernstein's Mass called Thank You, about the importance of having someone to thank. And I often still flash on the 8th Psalm, "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?"

The trouble with attributing good fortune to a being is that they also have to accept the blame.

“You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.” (J. Michael Straczynski)

(Sorry to be so late in getting back to you - I could have sworn I answered earlier.)

[fairy69]

oh what an interesting quote by Straczynski there!

No problem, there. :) I appreciate your responses when you can.