Cralls

People don't see God's love.
Everyone seems to see all this stuff that they DON'T like in this world.
People don't seem to see everything that's AMAZING.
People, frankly, are spoiled and can't see what they are given and only want more more more instead of being thankful.
Look at this world.
Everyone I've ever heard whining has food. Surplus food. Too much food. THANK GOD you have such wonderful and healthy food!
And shelter! And companions!

People tend to bash mankind for being the only known animal to have wars. But I see so much potential from that.
Animals have been known to stay together, wolves for example, but none that I know of will band together and help other they have no previous knowledge of. And if it is seen throughout the animal kingdom it's quite rare.
But what an amazing overlooked aspect of mankind! We can unite! In war, people unite against another people for a similar purpose.
And there are people who band together to stop war. And people give up their homes for others and donate money and supplies for people they will never know anything about. Sports, music, jobs, plays etc all require the utmost cooperation between individuals. 

We are given a great capacity for love and union. People see natural disasters such as hurricane Katrina and wonder how a loving God could allow such atrocities. They even go as far as to say that it's a fallacy to say that an all loving and all powerful god can exist if such things exist. And then they'd point to the terrible way people reacted with thievery and everything else that went down. But they tend to forget all the wonderful things. So many people came to help. So many prayers for people were given. Shelters were put up everywhere for everyone. Everyone was forced to band together and work and love one another selflessly in order to survive. I find this exciting and amazing. How can one NOT see the love and compassion and brilliant work done here to give mankind this sort of capacity? And who is to blame but ourselves if we choose such a gift for evils?

We can choose to find joy in serving others and helping others; it's build in us to have this kind of relationship with people. That is such an amazing thought to me!

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Another thought:
I was thinking of secular music. Is there secular music? There is music which has no religiosity in it. It may not have any sort of thought towards God at all. But it is utilizing all of his creation. From the brilliance that is music, to his consciousness, to his[possibly] strength with words and possibly his collaboration with others. And this music is given because of observations made of his creation using senses the writer was given by God. And suppose this song is recorded. What a miracle that we are able to do such things, and that the human mind is capable of such creative and brilliant inventions! How is this secular?

And that of music written with specific spite against God or specifically denying his existence? Well I find this an ironic situation. They are using all the beautiful creations and inventions of God to spite him.

That's like writing a letter to Apple on a Macintosh using Appleworks to tell Steve Jobs she thinks his products sucks and she hates him. It makes no sense. It's an ironic, hilarious, truly sad thing to realize how many people do this.

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Which brings me to my last thought:
How many times do we use things, such as Apple products, with no regard to those who make them? All the time. Do you use your computer and think of all the people who came up with the sciences to make this even possible, to all those who took the elements, to those who turned the elements into materials, who used those materials to construct the designs which were created under the mind of those who thought up the original idea. And to those who slaved over the program and then let it out for you to use, are you ever grateful to them? Regardless of why these people did/do these things [money, joy, others] aren't you grateful that they DID/DO them? And yet we never think or are grateful, we never take the time to write a letter to thank those for all that they've done for you.

Instead we find ways to criticize or we just completely take this all for granted.

And how often do we thank God for everything he's done? For all the brilliance that is around us? We just take it all, are rarely grateful, and demand more. All this is done after we complain about what we are given too. How backward is this thinking that seems to plague us?

I just got done playing Donkey Kong Country for the SNES. I've played 44 minutes and I'm already on the 3rd world. The levels seem so short. It's so insane how easy and fast it is now. Playing Super Mario for the Wii is interesting.. it's actually pretty hard! I wonder how much of it is not being used to the Wii... I also wonder if the games are harder. Perhaps for older audiences.. but I think also that it's because younger kids play SO many more video games that they can/need to be harder! 

I feel the rest is implied so I'll leave it to your imagination.

The windows are shut to keep the sweet smell of berry incense swirling amidst my room.
Aromatic?
or
Cancerous?

The moon is something special tonight.
Or perhaps
the more correct way
to say that would be
my view of the moon is something special
for does the moon change?
Or does the moon ever not change?

A thin travelling cloud
moves across the moon.
The moon shines
through the sheet as if
there were none
and creates a strange 
orange aura surrounding itself
as a forcefield protects
its creator.

What does the moon need
protection against?
What would dare 
harm the moon?
What has so little a heart
as to harm the moon?

It's beauty 
glows for all
never selfish
alway selfless
The moon does not
over shine with arrogance 
like the sun
The moon does not 
keep all its glory
like a rock
The moon shares
its light
and its magnificence 
while not overpowering
or pushing itself upon anyone
it sits...
beautiful...
waiting...
for us to admire 
by our own will.

 

The Bible is not God, it is simply his word. If we take the Bible and read it and memorize it and love it.... it means nothing.
What we need to do is to love and worship GOD... not his word.

Now, his word can be helpful. We must listen to him and we can learn how to get to God, how to find him and live with him. But finding out how to live is not living. God is not the Bible, the Bible simply directs us towards God.
We must realize this.

Joby could have responded with something like, "Well if you would just behave I wouldn't have to get angry!" But that would defeat the purpose. He knows that he needs constant reminding of how to correctly behave. 

I am going to start asking people how I can improve. Like at work. I am going to ask what things I can do better or things I can do less of. And I have to be open to answers. I need to get past my pride and take in the criticism to create 'constructive criticism'.