some simple thoughts.

Nothing profound or life changing, my thoughts are like the leaky faucet that goes "drip, drip, drip." When we are faced with life's battles, things that bother us, usually we like to ignore them. trying to be virtuous is a hard thing and besides we live in a hard going society where we want things to be perfect but they never are. We want that perfect mate, but sometimes we are just to shy to let that person really know how we feel. We also like to fantasise about what our lives would be like, if we were a little smarter, if we were a little taller, what if I could go back ten years ago, how would I do things well I think we would do things just the way we did them. Thoughts of a better life, a wife, never dying, we are strange people indeed. We are human. We need each other, we need the air, we need love and we need joy, we don't need to cry, we need to hate, we need to love and love some more. This life will eventually come to an end and then what next, where do we go from here? I am not an atheist. I believe in a God. I think though sometimes we invent a kind of god. Like my parking lot god, my golfing god, my best friend god, my where did that thing go? god, I am not a heretic, I just sometimes think that our idea of God comes from storybooks, and movies, different ways of interpreting who he is and just what he does. Do you really know God? I think he knows you, me, maybe he is too busy running the world...naaa, I think he's left that part a mystery. Saving souls? Possibly, I know you believe in that if you are a saved soul!!

What about Jesus? God/man, do you believe in Jesus?.......what does that mean? It means that you have found God..Jesus, he is God. When you find God, you have really found a relationship with Jesus. Maybe eternity won't be that bad after all.

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