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That Are Yours and Yours Alone
1. The end result of your choices
2. More of the same unless you change the game
1 Thing That Is Greater Than Love
Free Will
I know it is very popular to contend that love is the ultimate force for good, and shall eventually, through struggle, conquer all.
The reality is:
God placed free will above love.
The fact that each one of us has free will to make our choices extends from the heart of God with even greater certainty and power than love.
It is why, although we love our children, we ultimately have to grant them the free will to do that which stirs their hearts, even if we believe it is going to damage or destroy them.
Free will comes to play in the very essence of our country.
Democracy does not mean “I love you” but rather, “you have the right.”
It is astounding to me that people who say they believe in God refuse to grant the courtesy of free will to other humans, when they know that God considers our free will to be sacred, even if we’re determined to kill his son on a cross.
We have tried to escape this reality by manifesting destiny. This is the notion that our lives are predetermined by fate. We feel this lifts the burden off of us to choose, when actually, personal selection is what God intended we pursue.
One thing that is greater than love is free will.
Therefore, whether I agree with your choices or believe them to be righteous, they are your decisions, and shall be honored.
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Dear Man/Dear Woman: A Noteworthy Conversation … August 27th, 2016
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Dear Woman: My girlfriend broke up with me.
Dear Man: Well, don’t look at me. I know you too well to be your girlfriend.
Dear Woman: I wasn’t flirting–just sharing.
Dear Man: And I was just kidding. What happened?
Dear Woman: According to her, nothing. That was the problem. She said I was too predictable.
Dear Man: And predictable is a problem because…?
Dear Woman: Because of the way we began. I think we believed we were overall attracted to one another, but it was just a sexual connection. We thought we could transform that spark into something more lasting.
Dear Man: Isn’t that true of every relationship? You start off with the hots, it chills, and then you try to find something cool.
Dear Woman: I don’t think so. I think there are relationships that are just sexual, but we’re afraid to admit this to ourselves, so we try to force conversation over delivered pizza.
Dear Man: So what is the difference between a sexual relationship and another?
Dear Woman: Well, let’s take an arbitrary number. How about 422? Yes, after the 422nd time you have sex, about everything that can possibly be physically discovered about each other has been completed. So then you either have a personal interest which sustains the coupling, or you start picking at each other, looking for a reason to split.
Dear Man: So do you think it’s about a personal interest?
Dear Woman: No, I don’t think a personal interest sustains two people, either. It must become a mutual interest. There has to be a reason to coagulate.
Dear Man: Coagulate? What an interesting word.
Dear Woman: Yes. It’s like blood clotting, You have so much going on with each other that you turn into a common scab.
Dear Man: Honestly, I think that’s the end of that analogy.
Dear Woman: Yeah, you’re probably right. But if a sexual interest does not have a personal interest which ends up with a mutual interest, you’re going to bounce off to the next piece of heat.
Dear Man: You know where I think the problem is? Women get trapped in the idea of being thrilled to be wanted, and men think it’s enough to want.
Dear Woman: I suppose it keeps procreation going on, but it certainly is not the climate for a good give-and-take between a man and woman.
Dear Man: I’m a woman. It’s not enough to be wanted. That’s what I need to tell my daughters. Many men will want you. You can’t comply simply because it feels good to be told you’re pretty.
Dear Woman: And I’m a man. It’s not enough for me just to want. I want–I have this little trigger in the lower part of my body that confirms the necessity. But it doesn’t mean that I should subjugate a woman or that I should make promises I can’t keep.
Dear Man: Human sexuality is screwed up, and that’s why gender wars are unleashed, and equality seems impossible.
Dear Woman: When I have children, I will teach the girls that it’s not enough to be wanted, and the boys that it’s not enough to want.
Dear Man: And I will teach my children the same, and tell them that the only way to ultimately show respect to another person is to make sure, at all junctures, that they are making their own choices.
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Good Lord… August 21, 2013
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Of the two choices provided I do not like either.
It happens to me sometimes.
I’ll go to a dinner and they’ll offer me baked chicken or chef salad, and I run pictures through my mind of the two entrees, and realize that I’m not particularly in the mood for either one.
Yet we live in a society emphatic that we follow a pre-packaged thinking which has been stuffed in a box just for us, rather than allowing individual tastes and ideas to come to the forefront–to see how they would actually fly.
I bring this up because tonight I head off to Lord of Life Lutheran in Portage, Michigan.
I like the name, even though I’ve never been comfortable with the word “lord.” It harkens images of King Arthur and the knights or very religious inclinations towards servitude rather than companionship. But that’s just me being picky.
I am greatly blessed by the fact that it’s Lord of LIFE and not the other two options which are more prevalent in our society: Lord of the Bored and Lord of the Horde.
Sometimes it feels like I’m being pressured to be either religious or to be an atheist. I can join the ranks of those who file in and perch themselves in a pew and snooze through a worship service or I can accept the agenda of a mob that has no sense of history or personal responsibility, but careens down a superhighway at 90 miles per hour, unable to see through the fog.
What makes matters worse is that the bored and the horde are at war, accusing each other of alienation and crimping freedom of expression.
Here’s what I think:
- Don’t talk to me about rights until you’ve dealt with some wrongs.
- And don’t preach against the wrongs when you’re not prepared to give your fellow-humans equal rights.
As you can see, this often causes me to be stuck in the middle between the Lord of the Bored and the Lord of the Horde.
So imagine my delight–tonight I get to go to Lord of Life–what Jesus described as abundant, non-condemning, willing to be creative and having a great sense of good cheer.
Is that what I will find tonight? I’m not sure. But since they’ve encased themselves within this delightful name, I will exhort them to live up to their own standard.
Sometimes the choices are not sufficient to the needs of my heart.
I have no intention of being bored–and I will not join the horde of stupidity simply because they offer an open bar.
Lord of Life — yes, my dear friends, that’s for me.
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