10 Seconds of Love...
by Roberto Esponja on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 3:22am ·
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Well, as usual I have been inspired via facebook status and response. It's good to write again. It's a far better kind of tired than pain gives me...
What is it that makes people of any faith or even a professed lack there of say, "Everything happens for a reason."?
Do we really think that? Or do we just wish it to be so very badly?
And why don't we then continue this line of reasoning when things seem to go our way as well?
If "Everything happens for a reason." don't those things happen for a reason too?
Status:
Everything in life happens for a reason,we may not understand why but we must remain positive and focused.Stay focused on your dreams and goals friends,they will happen...
Response:
You have made me think, for that I thank you. So, let me start by saying, I totally agree with your first sentence. However, if one were to really stop, and consider the enormity of the concept that this statement suggests, I wonder if so many who utter these same words would be so flippant in their pursuit of understanding the one orchestrating these very same reasons. I believe we are far more than remiss if we fail in doing so, for it stating that "Everything happens for a reason." gives everything a purpose, seeming to suggest a creator, an omniscient deity...God if you will.
With that omniscient deity in mind, it seems wise for us to be flexible in the pursuit of our perception of what is best for us, bending, and ideally completely yielding to the will of said orchestrator, to attain what is actually best for us. For just as we may not understand the reasoning behind events as we see them, we may also fail in recognizing the direction which we are being moved as a result of these events.
Consequently, it seems we run the very real risk of missing far greater opportunities and experiences than we might ever have imagined possible, simply for their not being within our own finite concept of how things should be and apparently not fitting within the rigid plans created within our own narrow visions and intentions.
In my limited experience, I have found that our positivity can only be maintained for the duration that our hope will sustain it. The one does not exist without the other. Take away a person's hope and I would be hard pressed to think you could find much for positive thinking in its absence.
Hope by its very nature, is not self sustaining for very long even in the strongest of wills. The statement that "everything happens for a reason which we may not understand" also seems, to me, to acknowledge that we are not in control and thus not self-sustained/reliant in the final outcome of events. So, where (or in what) we place that crucial hope is (in multiple senses) of grave importance if our desire is in deed (as well as word), to be sustained for the duration of our lives.
All that being said, it seems it would be wise for us to be extremely wary of placing a greater hope in the creation (more specifically ourselves) rather than acknowledging our own vast, inherent need by placing our hope solely in the creator. For while the former is finite and ever changing, the later is infinite and never changing.
Regardless of the circumstances we may be facing, however bad or good we may view them to be, the choice of hope in one source is certain defeat, but to place our hope in the other, certain victory.
So yes, I while I believe everything happens for a reason, I also happen to believe it happens for A singular, and much larger reason. Glory be to God.
d(-_-)b
Well, as usual I have been inspired via facebook status and response. It's good to write again. It's a far better kind of tired than pain gives me...
What is it that makes people of any faith or even a professed lack there of say, "Everything happens for a reason."?
Do we really think that? Or do we just wish it to be so very badly?
And why don't we then continue this line of reasoning when things seem to go our way as well?
If "Everything happens for a reason." don't those things happen for a reason too?
Status:
Everything in life happens for a reason,we may not understand why but we must remain positive and focused.Stay focused on your dreams and goals friends,they will happen...
Response:
You have made me think, for that I thank you. So, let me start by saying, I totally agree with your first sentence. However, if one were to really stop, and consider the enormity of the concept that this statement suggests, I wonder if so many who utter these same words would be so flippant in their pursuit of understanding the one orchestrating these very same reasons. I believe we are far more than remiss if we fail in doing so, for it stating that "Everything happens for a reason." gives everything a purpose, seeming to suggest a creator, an omniscient deity...God if you will.
With that omniscient deity in mind, it seems wise for us to be flexible in the pursuit of our perception of what is best for us, bending, and ideally completely yielding to the will of said orchestrator, to attain what is actually best for us. For just as we may not understand the reasoning behind events as we see them, we may also fail in recognizing the direction which we are being moved as a result of these events.
Consequently, it seems we run the very real risk of missing far greater opportunities and experiences than we might ever have imagined possible, simply for their not being within our own finite concept of how things should be and apparently not fitting within the rigid plans created within our own narrow visions and intentions.
In my limited experience, I have found that our positivity can only be maintained for the duration that our hope will sustain it. The one does not exist without the other. Take away a person's hope and I would be hard pressed to think you could find much for positive thinking in its absence.
Hope by its very nature, is not self sustaining for very long even in the strongest of wills. The statement that "everything happens for a reason which we may not understand" also seems, to me, to acknowledge that we are not in control and thus not self-sustained/reliant in the final outcome of events. So, where (or in what) we place that crucial hope is (in multiple senses) of grave importance if our desire is in deed (as well as word), to be sustained for the duration of our lives.
All that being said, it seems it would be wise for us to be extremely wary of placing a greater hope in the creation (more specifically ourselves) rather than acknowledging our own vast, inherent need by placing our hope solely in the creator. For while the former is finite and ever changing, the later is infinite and never changing.
Regardless of the circumstances we may be facing, however bad or good we may view them to be, the choice of hope in one source is certain defeat, but to place our hope in the other, certain victory.
So yes, I while I believe everything happens for a reason, I also happen to believe it happens for A singular, and much larger reason. Glory be to God.
d(-_-)b
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