Its not completely wrong to live with your head in the clouds, nor is is completely wrong to live in reality as if it is all that there is!
We have a God who is outside of our time and space, therefore we need to be open to things happening that we simply can not understand or explain!
However, I believe that we do need to be slightly rooted in the here and now! We need to be able to be (at least) seen as sane!
I know that there will be some who will disagree with me, and their opinions are perfectly valid (and if they so wish, they can add them in at the comments section! Please remember to be nice, polite and not push your opinion down mine or anyone else throats! Those sort of opinions will be removed, along with any with vulgar language!)
I believe that we need to be open to the possibility of God to do anything He pleases! But I also believe that there are certain ways that this world was created to work and (from my experience) God works within those constraints!
It has been said to me in the past that an injury or ache or pain that I have had is an attack of the devil! This, I believe, gives the devil a little too much credit! The devil did not make me sprain my ankle! Nor did he sprain my ankle!
I've also been told that certain aches and pains are spiritual/human attack - words as knives in the back! And while I do not doubt that this is totally possible, sometimes, its simply because I slept so well, I didn't move in the night and thus, I woke up stiff and sore! No devil and no human attacks! Nothing that a good back massage can't solve!
The gods aren't angry, they do not control everything! Only God controls everything, knows everything and all that stuff! And funny enough, He's not angry either! I know that some things He allows, for my strengthening or learning or something like that! But not all bad things are His doing, or the doings of the devil! Some things are simply human!
My stiff sore shoulder - I slept!
My sprained ankle - my stupid fault!
That failed school exam - was study undertaken? Was the student stressed out of their brain? Are they simply the type of student who is crap at exams (I was)?!!
Reality is in the hear and now, balances with the unseen spiritual! Its not one or the other! Life needs to be treated as such!
I know that without the dreamers or thinkers of the world, we wouldn't have half the stuff we take for granted, like my "smart phone" that likes to change some of my text to something completely different! Or the laptop that is sitting across the room from me that complains that Queensland is just too hot for it to cope!
We need the thinkers and the dreamers! We also need those grounded in reality! Without them, there would be no balance, no one to actually build what the thinkers and dreamers come up with!
Look at it this way - I design a ring. It looks great on paper, however, when its been drawn up on the computer, it is quickly discovered that in reality, my far fetched ideas won't work! 3d printers simply can't do that, the design "leaks" printing wax goes everywhere and a ring simply can not be cast! It is impossible! My design needs a minor modification so it can work! Its different, a one off, pushed the boundaries a little, but now, the constraints if reality have worked together (not so perfectly) with far fetched imagination to produce something beautiful!
We need to be balanced as humans! I believe it is how we were made!
May Gods blessings shower down upon you. And may you be coated in the dust of your Rabbi!
We have a God who is outside of our time and space, therefore we need to be open to things happening that we simply can not understand or explain!
However, I believe that we do need to be slightly rooted in the here and now! We need to be able to be (at least) seen as sane!
I know that there will be some who will disagree with me, and their opinions are perfectly valid (and if they so wish, they can add them in at the comments section! Please remember to be nice, polite and not push your opinion down mine or anyone else throats! Those sort of opinions will be removed, along with any with vulgar language!)
I believe that we need to be open to the possibility of God to do anything He pleases! But I also believe that there are certain ways that this world was created to work and (from my experience) God works within those constraints!
It has been said to me in the past that an injury or ache or pain that I have had is an attack of the devil! This, I believe, gives the devil a little too much credit! The devil did not make me sprain my ankle! Nor did he sprain my ankle!
I've also been told that certain aches and pains are spiritual/human attack - words as knives in the back! And while I do not doubt that this is totally possible, sometimes, its simply because I slept so well, I didn't move in the night and thus, I woke up stiff and sore! No devil and no human attacks! Nothing that a good back massage can't solve!
The gods aren't angry, they do not control everything! Only God controls everything, knows everything and all that stuff! And funny enough, He's not angry either! I know that some things He allows, for my strengthening or learning or something like that! But not all bad things are His doing, or the doings of the devil! Some things are simply human!
My stiff sore shoulder - I slept!
My sprained ankle - my stupid fault!
That failed school exam - was study undertaken? Was the student stressed out of their brain? Are they simply the type of student who is crap at exams (I was)?!!
Reality is in the hear and now, balances with the unseen spiritual! Its not one or the other! Life needs to be treated as such!
I know that without the dreamers or thinkers of the world, we wouldn't have half the stuff we take for granted, like my "smart phone" that likes to change some of my text to something completely different! Or the laptop that is sitting across the room from me that complains that Queensland is just too hot for it to cope!
We need the thinkers and the dreamers! We also need those grounded in reality! Without them, there would be no balance, no one to actually build what the thinkers and dreamers come up with!
Look at it this way - I design a ring. It looks great on paper, however, when its been drawn up on the computer, it is quickly discovered that in reality, my far fetched ideas won't work! 3d printers simply can't do that, the design "leaks" printing wax goes everywhere and a ring simply can not be cast! It is impossible! My design needs a minor modification so it can work! Its different, a one off, pushed the boundaries a little, but now, the constraints if reality have worked together (not so perfectly) with far fetched imagination to produce something beautiful!
We need to be balanced as humans! I believe it is how we were made!
May Gods blessings shower down upon you. And may you be coated in the dust of your Rabbi!
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