Thursday, March 18, 2004
I'm posting twice today, strange. *shrugs*
Why do people always try to fit everything into a box? The see something and try to put it in a formula and what doesn't fit, or what they cannot somehow make fit, they throw away. That's one thing I hae about posting on a blog. You're going to take whatever I write, see it through the filter of your preconcieved ideas and try to shove it into the box of who you think I am. Whether people realize it ot not, when they meet people they immediately begin to build a box for them. Neat, packaged, that's what humans like. Mystery but with some predictibuluty. There are laws to the world: mathmatical, scientic, lingual, and we try to put those rules on people too...on God.
Why do we always blame our pasts for our mistakes. When we look at our faults our first instinct is to look back and see what "made us" this way. We love to look back, point to an event and exclaim "that is why I do this," or that is why I act like this". Yes, event throughout our life shape who we are, but after we recognize a life shaping event we have the opportunity to not let it control who we are or who we will become. Why are we so reluctant to let the past go? Why do we cling to it? What don't we see what we've become and deal with it (either by asking God to help us or accepting who we are - which basically must go hand in hand)? We read "So we beat on, boats against the current, ceaselessly borne back into the past" and we resinate with it without recognizing there is a problem there. Or we recognize the problem with the statement and do not recognize the correlation to our own life. God did not make us to be retrospective creatures. It's not that 'we are' but that 'we are becoming.' Life is a process. Yes, those things in the past have affected us, and some of those things may leave scars, but we are not finished becoming. We need to let go of the past! THere will be more pasts to look back on soon enough. The past, the scars, can't be changed. Like it or not they are there and the affects are present and must be dealt with. I'm going to shut up now, I'm ranting. Well...one more thing. Never mind. I'm not sure if I'm going to post this. Oh well, no sense deleting it now that it's written.
Why do people always try to fit everything into a box? The see something and try to put it in a formula and what doesn't fit, or what they cannot somehow make fit, they throw away. That's one thing I hae about posting on a blog. You're going to take whatever I write, see it through the filter of your preconcieved ideas and try to shove it into the box of who you think I am. Whether people realize it ot not, when they meet people they immediately begin to build a box for them. Neat, packaged, that's what humans like. Mystery but with some predictibuluty. There are laws to the world: mathmatical, scientic, lingual, and we try to put those rules on people too...on God.
Why do we always blame our pasts for our mistakes. When we look at our faults our first instinct is to look back and see what "made us" this way. We love to look back, point to an event and exclaim "that is why I do this," or that is why I act like this". Yes, event throughout our life shape who we are, but after we recognize a life shaping event we have the opportunity to not let it control who we are or who we will become. Why are we so reluctant to let the past go? Why do we cling to it? What don't we see what we've become and deal with it (either by asking God to help us or accepting who we are - which basically must go hand in hand)? We read "So we beat on, boats against the current, ceaselessly borne back into the past" and we resinate with it without recognizing there is a problem there. Or we recognize the problem with the statement and do not recognize the correlation to our own life. God did not make us to be retrospective creatures. It's not that 'we are' but that 'we are becoming.' Life is a process. Yes, those things in the past have affected us, and some of those things may leave scars, but we are not finished becoming. We need to let go of the past! THere will be more pasts to look back on soon enough. The past, the scars, can't be changed. Like it or not they are there and the affects are present and must be dealt with. I'm going to shut up now, I'm ranting. Well...one more thing. Never mind. I'm not sure if I'm going to post this. Oh well, no sense deleting it now that it's written.
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