I could end this blog right now and say no, running for a cure just gets peoples hopes up and they will never find a cure for cancer but I think if I said that I would loose all my friends on facebook for we all have had a friend or family member who has been touched with this disease. My alter ego who basically hates everything that is good says "Who cares for those rotten souls, whether they died or not they got what they deserved for the world is evil and full of evil people who deserve nothing but death!" But no, I am not my alter ego and I do have a heart of compassion for those dealing with or have lost a loved one to cancer. No, we can't bring them back, but we can and should honour their memories if we have a chance to do so.
There was a time in my life when I had many questions about who I was, where I was going after I die and what would my life look like if even I could find the answer to one of my questions. I went on a search. It lead me to a book store where I found a book titled Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. He was an east Indian guru, who experimented with religion until as he explains found God, through Scientific Techniques of Meditation, most importantly Kriya Yoga.
I never got that far down this Spiritual path but one thing that I realized was that yoga gave me an experience of great bliss and joy that left me totally convinced that there was a God and there was an afterlife, what that was was explained to me was pure joy.
Joy is not an emotion we feel but it feels very emotional. When we experience bliss it is as if all our hearts desires have been fulfilled through one moment of deep communion with God. You want to laugh, you want to cry, you want to scream, you want to pray. But this bliss comes to and end, not permanently but for a time. And when you feel it again, it is even stronger. More love, more joy, more bliss, and all this is experienced through meditation. But is this God? No, this is the new age.
I can say that I reached a point of enlightenment, but eventually we all die right? Then what? My search brought me to Christianity. Christianity is a faith where you can find answers to the hardest question but most importantly you can find God. God is not a person-(let me define) God is a spirit. Christ who is fully God and fully man is part of the trinity, The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost. Christ became man and suffered on the cross to pay the penalty for the sins of all that would come to Him in faith and receive forgiveness. Christianity is the only religion that one can have eternal life.
Eternal life comes to a person when they repent of their sins and receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour. Enlightenment is great but it does not offer forgiveness of sins, and this was my problem. I wanted a relationship with God and I thought that meant experiencing Him, through the senses. Christ I believe can be felt through deep reverential fear of God and prayer, but God is not something to be grasped, like a straw.
God cannot be bought or sold and it is He who searches the hearts and it is He who chooses us, we do not choose Him. I have found what God is, he is light, no I haven't seen that light but I can have communion with Christ through the bible. This is how God speaks to human kind and it is true.
Run your race, but who are you running to? I know who you are running for, but are they God?
this is mike.
There was a time in my life when I had many questions about who I was, where I was going after I die and what would my life look like if even I could find the answer to one of my questions. I went on a search. It lead me to a book store where I found a book titled Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. He was an east Indian guru, who experimented with religion until as he explains found God, through Scientific Techniques of Meditation, most importantly Kriya Yoga.
I never got that far down this Spiritual path but one thing that I realized was that yoga gave me an experience of great bliss and joy that left me totally convinced that there was a God and there was an afterlife, what that was was explained to me was pure joy.
Joy is not an emotion we feel but it feels very emotional. When we experience bliss it is as if all our hearts desires have been fulfilled through one moment of deep communion with God. You want to laugh, you want to cry, you want to scream, you want to pray. But this bliss comes to and end, not permanently but for a time. And when you feel it again, it is even stronger. More love, more joy, more bliss, and all this is experienced through meditation. But is this God? No, this is the new age.
I can say that I reached a point of enlightenment, but eventually we all die right? Then what? My search brought me to Christianity. Christianity is a faith where you can find answers to the hardest question but most importantly you can find God. God is not a person-(let me define) God is a spirit. Christ who is fully God and fully man is part of the trinity, The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost. Christ became man and suffered on the cross to pay the penalty for the sins of all that would come to Him in faith and receive forgiveness. Christianity is the only religion that one can have eternal life.
Eternal life comes to a person when they repent of their sins and receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour. Enlightenment is great but it does not offer forgiveness of sins, and this was my problem. I wanted a relationship with God and I thought that meant experiencing Him, through the senses. Christ I believe can be felt through deep reverential fear of God and prayer, but God is not something to be grasped, like a straw.
God cannot be bought or sold and it is He who searches the hearts and it is He who chooses us, we do not choose Him. I have found what God is, he is light, no I haven't seen that light but I can have communion with Christ through the bible. This is how God speaks to human kind and it is true.
Run your race, but who are you running to? I know who you are running for, but are they God?
this is mike.
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