wonderings
last night i sat in "silence" just thinking, trying to pray, trying to connect with God. i think i'm going to be stating the obvious here but it seems to me that the goal of life is to simply to find out "who i am". trying to be things - a leader, a friend, a follower of Christ, etc. seem to all flow from this. hopefully our journey to discover who we are intrinsically leads us to God, where our ultimately identity is hidden and created as we search for it. at first this may seem completely individualstic, but then i think again and we cannot know ourselves or God outside of relation. so in our pursuit of ourself (which i think could be another way of saying God's love) we must throw ourself in the lives of people and find out about them, invest in them, invest in the search for Jesus's love and when we do we'll discover what it is we were looking for. God's love. in our search for our heart (which is wrapped up in God's heart) i think we inevitably take on titles that people often try to start with. am i making any sense? i'm still working on flushing out the language to describe what i'm thinking and feeling. could it be that everything can be reduced to the search for "who am i?" comments/reactions.
18 February 2005
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"hopefully our journey to discover who we are intrinsically leads us to God, where our ultimately identity is hidden and created as we search for it. "
do you think you could state it the other way around then... that God is the only way to finding out who we really are... if we don't seek to know Him than we will never really be able to know who we are
"we must throw ourself in the lives of people and find out about them, invest in them, invest in the search for Jesus's love and when we do we'll discover what it is we were looking for. God's love."
going over this in my head and going along with stating the obvious, I keep thinking about how I honestly don't know what I would do- where I would be- w/o people in my life. people show me who christ is... people give me different perspectives on life and challenge me and comfort me and I see how God uses them in my life... people have made a huge impact, regardless of whether they realize it or not. our interactions with each other are so vital... there are so many ways in which one person can affect you and you, them. we need others in our lives... i am reminded of that movie "cast away" and how Tom Hanks character invented a companion to keep him company...
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