This blog will, with any hope, help me in ways I cannot even conceive of at the moment.
I am fulfilled by many things: My friends and family that I love so dearly, my home and the fact that I have never been jobless or ill, my ability to make others happy in some way. I feel as if I have been blessed with a very special and wonderful life, with more happiness to come, just over the horizon. Yet, I have felt for the longest time that there is something missing.
I feel like it is a part of myself that I try - and fail - to fill with the inconsequential. For everything I juggle, my life could be so much more balanced & full if I could only re-connect with the thing(s) that have left me.
I've always considered myself a spiritual person. For a long time now, religion has left a bad taste in my mouth. I am no longer one for dogma, for the "this way is the only way" path. There are too many things that we do not know as living human beings to say that. There is too much out there still for us to learn... and here we think that we have it all figured out.
I am not here to say that anyone is wrong... because I don't know. But that's the point, right? What we don't know frees us to create our path through the universe. It has taken me a while to figure this out on my own, but I feel as if I am traveling down an old trail that many have taken. I am alone and yet I am not... and that thought brings me peace in my solitude.
I feel like it is a part of myself that I try - and fail - to fill with the inconsequential. For everything I juggle, my life could be so much more balanced & full if I could only re-connect with the thing(s) that have left me.
I've always considered myself a spiritual person. For a long time now, religion has left a bad taste in my mouth. I am no longer one for dogma, for the "this way is the only way" path. There are too many things that we do not know as living human beings to say that. There is too much out there still for us to learn... and here we think that we have it all figured out.
I am not here to say that anyone is wrong... because I don't know. But that's the point, right? What we don't know frees us to create our path through the universe. It has taken me a while to figure this out on my own, but I feel as if I am traveling down an old trail that many have taken. I am alone and yet I am not... and that thought brings me peace in my solitude.
"Nothing is more practical than finding 'God', that is,
than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination
will affect everything. It will decide what will get you
out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends, what you read,
who you know, what breaks your heart, &
what amazes you with both joy & great gratitude.
Fall in love, stay in love, & it will decide everything."
- Pedro Arrupe
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