This past week has been filled with soul-searching, pondering, and an evolution of my beliefs and practices. I'm going to be perfectly honest. Sometimes, things happen in life that you just don't understand. Don't try to. Some things, I guess, were meant to keep their mystery, to you at least. And that's okay. We were never meant to know all things in this lifetime anyway.
This week, I learned the importance of having spiritual mentors, to whom you are accountable to, people who won't judge you and won't be biased, but would lead you down the right path, come what may. It is a great blessing to have spiritual mentors to guide you when your own thoughts and opinions may be biased or affected by your emotions, just to have someone to bring you out of your immediate surroundings and remind you of the "big picture." My mentors know who they are, and I love them and thank them for their support, their shoulder to cry on, their patient listening ears, and their godly counsel.
All week long, I've become more aware of the struggle between human, worldly behavior and the attitudes and actions we are called to deliver as Christians. It's not an easy road. It's full of roadblocks, obstacles, and temptations. Of course, it's much easier to respond to situations in the ways of the world, but it takes more courage, effort, energy, and sacrifice to follow Christ. I'm not saying, in any way, that I'm perfectly holy, that I'm blameless and never at fault. No one is exempt from making these difficult choices. But no matter how tough, with God's Word as the Light unto our path, we're called to rise above any situation. Sucks, right? A bit. But that's what we're called to do as children of God.
Friendships and relationships are priceless, as far as both sides treat it so. This week was a tough one, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, and I thank God for pulling me through. One thing I've definitely realized is that I'm blessed to have a home to look forward to, people to be excited about spending time with, and a wonderful life overflowing with reasons to smile, reasons to be thankful for, reasons to be amazed at God's awesome grace, mercy, and power. Hallelujah! Praise be to God!
On a lighter note, there is another thing that's been on my mind. I'm in this philosophy class called Scientific Method, and it's basically an in-depth analysis of the philosophy of science. Since I've started the class, I've become more aware of how my thoughts progress and how, especially in science, we have been "programmed" to string together known truths through inferred explanations. This is a process we all go through, though we are not conscious of it. With that said, something's been on my mind, and I'm trying to figure it out. I don't know... I know some facts, trying to string the facts together... I don't know what I'm really trying to say... I'm just trying to figure out... what is this? Sorry if this is confusing for the reader... pay no mind to it. I'm just mentally blurbing my emotions here.
Anywhooo... Have an amaaazing week!
"Scientific Method" There is an interesting term...i agree that the thinking process is important as long as it is not divorced from the emotions...thinking and feeling are both key aspects of coming to accurate as possible conclusions in my book!
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