I saw this on a dashboard some 15 years ago (ritle for this post). Now then 🤔 There are many things in life we dream of: To be a famous singer; To be an astronaut; To be the next president of the United States; To be the next billionaire; To become an actor on the movie screen or on broadway; A happy, healthy relationship (how many of us even have that in a heterosexual relationship? How many of us even have God’s blessing in a heterosexual relationship? 😪)… The United States affords us the opportunity to dream of such things but doesn’t guarantee them. The odds speak of… but it doesn’t determine exactly who were who not… People beat the odds all the time 🤷♂️
Many people suffer grave disappointment when they fail to make their dreams materialize. Even commit suicide. Perhaps no dream in life runs more deep and is more pervasive than that of a successful, loving relationship. When some people realize for example, that their dreams of a relationship, the nature of their particular relationship, is in conflict with their faith; it presents a formidable dilemma for many! So 🤔, when people are faced with the proposition that they their desires, feelings go against God, and the laws of nature… and are told it’s wrong to engage in that type of relationship…:
•Some go mad
•Sime get mad
•Some go without
•Some live with the guilt, the shame that comes with moving forward with their decision to engage
•Some curse God
•Some renounce God altogether
But in the end, the point is this – Most people in life never fulfill their dreams. They must accept failure, fate, and therefore, live without… 🤔 I’m having a vision of a group of people (so-called leaders) at a table, a group of selfish people; a group of a group of people with various degrees of (limited) open-mindedness; a group of people with an assortment of fears, biases, even prejudices -trying to sit down amongst themselves and establish guidelines for the people who look to them for leadership; a group of people which includes “their own self-appointed ideas of god”, a group of people which includes atheists and agnostic (people with many of the above-stated limitations rely entirely on themselves -and those around them at the table (most likely people who think just like they do -quite common among humans who quite often already have a set agenda in mind based upon the aforementioned neurosis and limits of their own…).
So, what’s the point or points here:
•In some area of our lives, at some point in our lives, we all have to accept that we’re never going to be able to live our dream.*
•Some people have a tendency to change the rules rather than except reality. Oh yes, mankind has been doing this throughout history.
•As previously stated, nothing is perhaps more important to the majority of human beings then companionship – And in many cases will blame God, condemn God, renounce God, even curse God… for putting them in this predicament** in the first place.
Any time you challenge man’s deepest desires, many of which hinge on fear*** -Man in many cases is more apt to “subvert rather than conform”. Isn’t that how we all got here in the 1st place? Defiance? And if you don’t think for one minute I have my own issues that go against God’s laws… period!. You got me all wrong!!!! I’m human just like you! I do not presume to know better than God although my actions often run to the contrary because I’m a fallible, twisted, self serving, defiant human-being… prey to fear, prey to desire… JUST LIKE YOU!!!! 👍Perhaps the only differences that I’m a little bit more capable of recognizing AND admitting so at this stage of my life!**** 🤷♂️
“Yeah -I’m closed too wrongdoing, and 😈🤟”.
*Winning all the time is not good for anyone. Neither is losing -but there’s probably more to be gained from losing them from winning.
**”Why did you make me this way then?” “Well then God is wrong!” “Well then I’ll just get another God.” “Well then I’ll just switch faiths to something more in line with my lifestyle (how many people have left the Catholic Church -and now from what I understand -the Catholic Church is loosening their stance in an attempt to bring people back to the church -New generation -new way of thinking 🤷♂️)?” Same old game: Man is a slave to his own twisted ideas; Man is a slave to his own fears… That’s why there are so few followers of Christ -because Christ asks that we challenge both of these: By replacing our twisted ideas with “The Truth”; By replacing fear with Faith!
***Fear and desire are formidable drives in man – It’s often difficult for a man to deal with one facet facet of his being but when there are multiple facets working in conjunction… That’s why it’s so interesting to observe a man whose facets are operating in conflict with one another.
****Between my own sordid history; The teachings in Alcoholics Anonymous; The reading of The Bible -the history within it -the teachings within it; The observance of man’s history and thus, his track record; A thorough reflection on my own life via the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous… Has led me to recognize that not only is my decision making faulty but that of the entire human race in some form or another. Ask yourself, do you really think that we human beings are doing all that great job in the direction we have charged in the direction we have child chose to go in? Tell me quite honestly, that taken as a whole, for the sake of a few things which we disagree with in The Bible (homosexuality vs heterosexuality; prosperity (greed, excess) vs poverty (moderation), fornication vs monogamy*****) and therefore have fand therefore have basically turned our back on it all together -do you believe that we have come out ahead or behind in the final analysis based upon that decision?
*****Tell me one thing, tell me one drawback to a monogamous relationship as it pertains to The Bible? Now give me 20 drawbacks to fornication? The more tenements one follows in The Bible pertaining to an intimate relationship with another human-being, the more problematic consequences fall by the wayside. Just look at all the problems teens and young adults run into, and how you can dissect the situation simply by outlining where they veered away from teachings in The Bible:
•STD’s
•Unwanted pregnancy
•Using of other people Resulting in tremendous hurt -even retaliation
•Mixed feelings; Confused feelings resulting in hurt of others
•Abortion
•Dating someone and finding out they’re married and then being murdered or assaulted******
•Simply the guilt and shame (repercussions) of acting without forethought
******Retaliation for misconduct (poor decision-making) in a relationship is one of the leading causes of violence violence in this country….. And yet there is no law against acting in such an immoral way except of course in The Bible. But it’s not illegal to be an asshole, or a user, or a predator in relationships – To cave in to some of our sicker desires.To sum up the bottom-line in all this:
We all must come to terms with the fact that not everything in life is going to work out the way we planned/hoped/dreamed. Pertaining to some of the most important issues in our lives, we will simply have to accept certain realities thrust upon us by nature (things that even with our best effort(s) will never come to pass), or; in certain instances, where things are well within our grasp -that does not necessarily mean that it is in our best interest to pursue them. “The devil made me do it” or “If God didn’t intend for me to do this; then why did He allow me to do it, or; why did He endow me with the capability to do it” <-To give you the power to choose-that’s why. Otherwise He’s simply making all the decisions for us 🤷♂️
We are all born of a woman; now just think about removing woman from the equation of a child’s development?
We are all conceived through the union which takes place between a man and woman (and by the way they are certain homosexual attitudes which loathe, even despise this insurmountable truth-of-life -that of the fact that neither group can enjoy children without this providential-reality of life (obstacle to them; a mere technicality to others in a changing world); Now just think about removing one or the other from the equation that proceeds from the birth of the child throughout its (“dominant” -I didn’t put that word in their -God?) developmental years. In my twenties, I used to think, naively so, like so many others probably do today – That all that mattered was love, it didn’t matter whether a child was being raised by 2 men or 2 women.. I used to tell myself that a healthy relationship, healthy loving relationship between 2 men or 2 women is better for a child than an unhealthy relationship between a man and a woman. The fact of the matter is that a healthy upbringing of a child is ultimately determined by a man and a woman in a healthy relationship and every healthy relationship and everything else is inferior.
Which brings me to my last point, there are a lot of problems in heterosexual relationships and in homosexual relationship -All that tells me is that by God’s determination there are mand there are many heterosexual relationships and notrue relationships and not just homosexual relationships true relationships that were not intended to be. And no Kama God does not sit up in heaven with his magic wand aedit wand and damn every homosexual relationship by cursing it to misery and conflict.. But that doesn’t mean that it’s still not against his will. My point is simply that homosexual relationships do not have a monopoly on going against God’s wisdom and teaching.There are many, and in this den age increasingly… Heterosexual relationships which God is not in agreement with. It’s. And there are many consequences involving heterosexual relationships that are negative in nature. The bottom line is this, whether you’re a heterosexual or a homosexual it’s always in our best interest to follow God’s lead and not our own or that of a sick twisted society.
In Alcoholics Anonymous there is a premise that belies all. That of: The alcoholic wants to arrange everything outside of himself to suit himself whereas an Alcoholic Anonymous -We practice changing ourselves to negate, or to narrow rather, the gap between ourselves and the world which so often brings about Strife and unhappiness.*******
God permits alcoholics to drink themselves to death. He even gives them the ability to do so-but that doesn’t mean it’s wise to choose to do so.
Think about the complications that come from anal sex not just between a man and a man but a man in a woman!
Think about some man in a homosexual relationship who yearn for a certain aspects that only a woman has to offer. Think about some women in a homosexual relationship who yearn for a certain aspect that only a man has to offer – Many men and women in homosexual relationships are constantly haunted by the notion of by the notion of artificial sex… Sex with that of something other than the real or originally intended organ -anatomically speaking.
The difference between God and everybody else is that God does things for our sake not for His sake – God doesn’t need anything -BUT WHAT HUMAN-BEING DOESN’T????🤷♂️
*******God wants to bring man up to His level -while man wants to bring God down to his level -TRU-SHTORY! 🤷♂️
NO ONE IS TO BLAME
Who is more responsible, the woman walking through a dark alley at night drunk and scantily dressed were the drunk person who rapes her?
Who is more responsible, the people in this country who have a lust for power and greed or the American people who are handing them what they want?
Who is more to blame, the sniper, or the mass shooter in the mall who is a product of a society gone bad -or the individuals themselves? What brought about the change in these behaviors and individuals in our societies? “Seldomly, does the individual (or the system) turn the light of reason on him or her self”******** (I seem to recall a similar from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous).
********It’s all about credibility, a fancy word for saving-face.To lose credibility is to lose power and to lose power is to lose control. To lose face is to walk away in shame and humility.