I am putting into place a moratorium on access to this blog starting April 16. If you would like to post anything between now and then please feel free to do so. The blog has served its intended purpose to some degree as well as some purposes that were good yet unintended. I want to thank all of those very dear to me who have taken the time to contribute to and share in this experience with me. During the moratorium I will continue to blog in a private format which will serve more as a diary for me. At a later date I may consider reopening the blog to be viewed by others (e.g. my children), but the season has changed for now.
Ecclesiastes 3 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: 2 a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,6a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason. -Mahatma Gandhi-
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2 comments:
I was going through some of my friends blogs when i found yours. We have some very similar views. I believe that Jesus was Gods son and God sent Jesus for my salvation. I am only a 13 years old but my relationship with God is stronger than some people who are way more advanced in years. Now that I have told you something about myself I hope I seem more real.
I have a question.
What is the meaning of your blog? When I read some of your posts I realized that you keep describing faith. Weither you have to little or more than enough is very unclear. What question do you ask? I feel that you have one but are afraid to ask it.
From what I read you have a family, a church and loving friends. All which were given to you by God, I believe. Therefore you must be lacking in faith like I expected.
What is your question???
I was surprised to have a comment here. The moratorium that you see posted was posted a year ago. I haven't written since then. The point of the blog was to open a dialog within my family and friends in an attempt create some transparency. The blog really just made things worse behind the scenes so I closed it.
I did have a lot of questions but I don't really anymore. You may be right in that I was searching to see if I have faith. I now know that I am not a man of faith.
I wouldn't take to much pride in your faith, that is quite a dangerous place to be, especially for a believer. Also as a 13 year old the odds are much greater that you have faith. Faith can be fickle and is not nearly as characteristic of faith as you might think. I probably made similar statements or claims about my faith when I was your age and for some time afterwards. Don't ever presume that you won't change, because when you presume such things your guard is down and that is when you turn around one day and realize that what you had was not really faith, but a whim, a lie, something put into your mind by someone or something, to fill the void of purpose in life.
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