I’m Alive!
Yesterday evening around the precise time that I had before decided that I would retire into a restful night’s slumber, my wonderful organ, known to most as a stomach, began to tell me that something was not quite right. After a short span of time both my stomach and I came to the realization that my stomach’s original hypothesis did not demonstrate a keen ability to express the actuality of my condition; something was very wrong. Between the frequent trips throughout the early morning to that “great white telephone”, for a span of around five hours, I came to the conclusion that a Trojan horse, or should I say Trojan egg left over from Easter, was the culprit in regards to my tragic condition. My recovery has been slow but it seems that I am on track again to resume my usual daily activities. I may never eat another Easter egg again.
Onwards to deeper and completely separate matters:
I have been truly blessed to have been surrounded by the best and brightest of available peoples wherever I have been placed. This was especially true during my high school years, with the exception of my senior year which from this point forth I will no longer include when speaking on “my high school years”. Senior year is an entirely different subject altogether.
Having lived in a multitude of places, and having met, said farewell, and lost contact with friends over the years I am ecstatic to think of the connection that is ongoing between me and friends whom I met during my high school years. Almost all have started their higher education careers, while I have been a bum I suppose. I admit that I have wasted time, but I learned a great deal nonetheless. There is a plethora of knowledge and opinions that await one in our institutions of higher learning. There can always be found a debate on one issue or another. In this atmosphere many have their opinions and ideology changed to where one may feel more enlightened. Many Christians have entered school only to leave either questioning whether anything which they knew about God is true, or being totally agnostic. Many enter with a set of morals that are only twisted throughout time making for a sense of tolerance. That which they have held dear to no longer works in their new world.
Our civilization has become a society ruled according to this “law”: If it feels good, do it. The effects of this ideology are ever present thanks to the media. I’ve stopped watching local news because inevitably someone has taken the life of another for the simple reason that the victim made them angry.
Mankind is born into a world of choice. By nature we will chose the path that causes is less paint. This status of mankind is called the natural man. Whatever is pleasing to the natural man is what they will do. To lie, steal, cheat, murder, fornicate, adulterate etc. is the will of the natural man. Some will make right choices without any guidance of reason, but for the majority if it feels good, they will do it.
Who has the right to say what is right and what is wrong? God! Some do not believe in a higher bring such as God who sets and example for righteousness. For them who decides what is right and wrong? Mankind! What is the natural state of mankind? Without God, there can be no righteousness.
There is opposition in all things. If one says there is no law, then there is no wickedness. If there is no wickedness, then there is no righteousness. If there is no righteousness, then there is no happiness. If there is no righteousness or happiness there is also no punishment or misery. If none of these things exist then there is no God. These things do exist because there is a God. Surely there is a God.
All people are sons and daughters of God who are to learn and progress in this life. God’s plan is to give us choices allowing for mistakes. Satan’s plan was to enslave mankind. There can be no progression if there is no free agency.
That nagging thought that we have that there is something more to ourselves than we realize is not a product of society. It is not a mistake. That thought is there because of our purposes in this life, and our potentials in the next. The need to further search deep within ourselves to find our purpose and our potential is the basis for truth, not the opposite. The world will tell us otherwise.
In this life it is not enough to be as the waters that flow with the least resistance. We are to carve out our path straight and true.
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