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| I DON'T UNDERSTAND!
You are much holier men than I. Miles closer to Christ than I am, so you have to be right...but I don't get it!!! Am I just wrong about my faith?! Here I am thinking that we have the ABSOLUTE GREATEST NEWS THIS WORLD HAS KNOWN. What kind of person would want to keep this to themselves?!?!?!?!?! No! We need to share it with the WORLD! We can't keep Christ locked up, only to let Him come out when we need Him to! We need to live an ACTIVE faith! The time is over to be passive. This world slips further and further away from the Truth on a daily basis. Why do we continue to allow this to happen? We must set our lamps on a table for all to see so that when someone enters, they see the light. True, we should not force anything on anyone. We must act in love through humility. But that doesn't mean we keep our love bottled up within us!! We have to live it where all can see. We have heard in whispers and it is time to proclaim it from the housetops!
No! How can we say that people need to socialize as opposed to pray?! Are not both a form of socializing? Prayer is socializing with GOD. Who matters more? Your friends or God? I thought it was God but maybe I was wrong.
And WHY do we take the Blessed Sacrament OUT of the Church on CHRISTMAS?!?!?! THAT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!
What have we become?!?!?!?!
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| What's the first thing that comes to your mind when someone mentions the word love?
If you asked me that question a year ago, I would have probably said something like wife, girlfriend, romance, etc. That seems to be what the world has trained us to think these days. You can't listen to the radio for 10 minutes without some whiny adolescent boy proclaiming their love for the girl across the street or some girl dreaming about her prince charming through the airwaves. Love is something that two people share with each other.
My question is whether or not we have fallen behind a veil of ignorance with this mindset.
I constantly contemplate over my thoughts in an attempt to get a better sense of who I am and I stumbled upon an interesting change in my perception of love the other day. When I thought of love, the first thing that came to mind was...God.
Who'da thunk that I would develop such an idea? I used to consider myself an idealist in terms of love. I kept the word at a very high status and thought it was something you could exclusively share with a woman. Because of this, I spent a lot of my life waiting to find someone who I could love with all my heart.
Now, I think that my idea of love has evolved without my knowledge. It has been elevated to an even higher status. By that I mean...I don't think that Love is something I can experience in this life. Notice that I capitalized the word. Love, in its full splendor and glory, is something that we can only experience upon reaching Heaven and gazing upon the beatific vision. Only then will we know Love the way it is meant to be known.
I have been trying to find "true love" for as long as I can remember, but now I realize that I cannot find it here on earth. To some, this may seem like a depressing thought, but I think that only shows that we HAVE fallen behind a veil of ignorance. The full extent of Love can only be experienced through God...especially through the death and resurrection of Christ.
So then what are those feelings you have for your significant other...or even your family or friends? Are those false ideas of what we perceive as love? Should we all just give up and become priests or nuns? By no means is that what I am implying. Rather, I think that God places people in our lives and blesses them with graces that allow us to see a portion of His Love for us through them. Through these love-relationships, we grow closer to God and come to a greater understanding of Love.
So, I still very much would like to find a significant other; however I find that the difference between my desire for one now and my desire for one a year ago is this: before I wanted love for the sake of loving and being loved whereas now I want love as a means to knowing Love, and in turn knowing God.
This was probably the most fun I've had writing a post online. Thoughts?
Quirky sidenote:
This sounds emo, but I swear it isn't. With this new mindset, I have found that I almost find strength and comfort in telling myself that I will never find a significant other...that I will never know love in the traditional sense that society has carved out. I'm not really sure why...maybe it makes me feel like it is God's way of molding me? Maybe I feel like it is my cross to bear in this life? Sounds strange...but just something interesting I have found deep within myself.
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| What's the first thing that comes to your mind when someone mentions the word love?
If you asked me that question a year ago, I would have probably said something like wife, girlfriend, romance, etc. That seems to be what the world has trained us to think these days. You can't listen to the radio for 10 minutes without some whiny adolescent boy proclaiming their love for the girl across the street or some girl dreaming about her prince charming through the airwaves. Love is something that two people share with each other.
My question is whether or not we have fallen behind a veil of ignorance with this mindset.
I constantly contemplate over my thoughts in an attempt to get a better sense of who I am and I stumbled upon an interesting change in my perception of love the other day. When I thought of love, the first thing that came to mind was...God.
Who'da thunk that I would develop such an idea? I used to consider myself an idealist in terms of love. I kept the word at a very high status and thought it was something you could exclusively share with a woman. Because of this, I spent a lot of my life waiting to find someone who I could love with all my heart.
Now, I think that my idea of love has evolved without my knowledge. It has been elevated to an even higher status. By that I mean...I don't think that Love is something I can experience in this life. Notice that I capitalized the word. Love, in its full splendor and glory, is something that we can only experience upon reaching Heaven and gazing upon the beatific vision. Only then will we know Love the way it is meant to be known.
I have been trying to find "true love" for as long as I can remember, but now I realize that I cannot find it here on earth. To some, this may seem like a depressing thought, but I think that only shows that we HAVE fallen behind a veil of ignorance. The full extent of Love can only be experienced through God...especially through the death and resurrection of Christ.
So then what are those feelings you have for your significant other...or even your family or friends? Are those false ideas of what we perceive as love? Should we all just give up and become priests or nuns? By no means is that what I am implying. Rather, I think that God places people in our lives and blesses them with graces that allow us to see a portion of His Love for us through them. Through these love-relationships, we grow closer to God and come to a greater understanding of Love.
So, I still very much would like to find a significant other; however I find that the difference between my desire for one now and my desire for one a year ago is this: before I wanted love for the sake of loving and being loved whereas now I want love as a means to knowing Love, and in turn knowing God.
This was probably the most fun I've had writing a post online. Thoughts?
Quirky sidenote:
This sounds emo, but I swear it isn't. With this new mindset, I have found that I almost find strength and comfort in telling myself that I will never find a significant other...that I will never know love in the traditional sense that society has carved out. I'm not really sure why...maybe it makes me feel like it is God's way of molding me? Maybe I feel like it is my cross to bear in this life? Sounds strange...but just something interesting I have found deep within myself.
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| Thank you God for staying with me. I'm pretty sure that if I didn't have you as my Rock right now...I'd be relapsing my situation from a a year and a half ago.
This summer is about growth...and boy am I being forced to grow in more ways than one.
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| Dan Burns: What don't I understand, Cara? Please, help me out. What is it? Is it frustrating that you can't be with this person? That there's something keeping you apart? That there's something about this person that you can connect with? And whenever you're near this person, you don't know what to say, and you say everything that's in your mind and in your heart, and you know that if you could just be together, that this person would help you become the best possible version of yourself?
Cara Burns: So he can stay?
Dan: (laughing hysterically) He can stay!
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