Monday - January 08, 2007
The God of Now
...(of all places), the USS
Yorktown. The topic was basically the "God of new Beginnings". It
appealed to me because my own ideas tend to run toward "the ultimate NOW" (tin foil hat alert! it's good, though).
His sermon was about every day being a new beginning....to take every day as a
chance to repent & take Jesus as your personal Savior.
For me (and don't get me wrong, I have NO problems with the idea of accepting Jesus...that's not my point), I can take that even a step further. We only live "now". We can't live in the future, we can't live in the past. We only have *every* moment.....and to make matters worse (or at least more interesting), that moment is *infinite*. We spend most of our time thinking about the future - or thinking about the past. But all we actually have is "now"....THIS moment.
I'm not sure but that that's not how we can commune with God. In other words, if we spend that "now"..."this moment"...tuned into what we ought to be tuned into, then we'll be living our lives appropriately. This is a very Zen idea, of course. We can respond appropriately to whatever happens. For Zen, this means living in complete freedom. For Christians, perhaps, this means experiencing God.
It's all very mysterious, I know....and I haven't done it justice. Just sort of thinking out loud, I guess.
For me (and don't get me wrong, I have NO problems with the idea of accepting Jesus...that's not my point), I can take that even a step further. We only live "now". We can't live in the future, we can't live in the past. We only have *every* moment.....and to make matters worse (or at least more interesting), that moment is *infinite*. We spend most of our time thinking about the future - or thinking about the past. But all we actually have is "now"....THIS moment.
I'm not sure but that that's not how we can commune with God. In other words, if we spend that "now"..."this moment"...tuned into what we ought to be tuned into, then we'll be living our lives appropriately. This is a very Zen idea, of course. We can respond appropriately to whatever happens. For Zen, this means living in complete freedom. For Christians, perhaps, this means experiencing God.
It's all very mysterious, I know....and I haven't done it justice. Just sort of thinking out loud, I guess.