The Plodder

Still plodding along, with some successes and some failures. As long as I'm learning I suppose it's okay. I was training last night at some one's home. This is to be able to pray for sick/wounded people and to be able to discern any spiritual condition they have. Interesting, but I'm not sure I'm sold on everything. Made me think about those things in general. Who knows everything? I was on a site the other day that just slammed religion, there are no such people as Jews (makes you wonder why Hitler was so deceived), no such person as Jesus, evolution is king, bla bla. Then, I was on another website that proved creation and junked evolution. Just goes to show that there's so much stuff out there. My own spiritual walk is taking me, I think, deeper into the mystery of everything. If there is a God, and He made everything, He has to be a gazillion times more clever than us, together with being omnipresent, omniscient, etc. So, if He does exist, and is that powerful and intelligent, it's little wonder that our puny brains can't understand much about Him or the way He does things. Someone said they'd rather live a good life and find out there's no God when they die, rather than living a criminal life and finding out there is a Godd when they die - too late to do anything about it then. One of the things about keeping the Judeo/Christian creed is the the laws and commandments, if we kept them, would make a great society. It's good not to murder, steal, lie, and it's good to honor your parents and more. Mercy and compassion aren't bad things. I'm glad I don't feel so disillusioned with life that I feel the need to strap an explosive belt on my body stuffed with rusty nails and aids infected blood and detonate it in the local marketplace. There are of course some happy pagans, but, generally, when did you ever see a happy Moslem, or Buddhist? I think I'll stick with my faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and live in the the joy of His presence.