I was reading my son-in-law’s blog (http://jarcaines.blogspot.com/) this morning and was really struck by the power that the written word can have in someone’s life. Yours, mine, anyone’s and everyone’s. JR’s blog is all about deep thinking in the realms of spiritual and social responsibility. Heavy stuff for this old man. And, yet, I am really drawn to it.
We, you and me, are thinking creatures and we very seldom have concurrent viewpoints on any issue, particularly spiritual and religious ones. What makes us such interesting individuals is that we ARE different and we DO think differently.
In my life time we have seen the great Socialist experiments in China, and the now defunct USSR, collapse. Experiments that were designed from the start to ensure that all under their influence would look, act and think as one, everyone the same, all the time. It did not work. It could not work.
Mankind was created in our Father’s (God's) image. We were not created as clones, each one looking or thinking the same. We were created as individuals who think, look and act independent of one another. We are wonderfully and gloriously made different from each other on purpose. It is God’s design that we be different, that we THINK different from each other. How special.
Psalms 139: 13-18 says it best:
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--and how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They are innumerable! I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!
My hope is that we all will fight intollerance of opposing viewpoints where ever we see it, that we will fight injustice at every opportunity and even more importantly, that we will support those who pick up the sword to lead us.
3 comments:
Thank you, Dad. You bless me. I like your home--there is room in the driveway for cars with John Kerry AND George W. campaign stickers. :) You've encouraged me.
Thanks Mike, great thoughts.
I kept reading this thinking "who is this guy!!" You constantly amaze me with your depth because you usually hide it. I love the adventure being married to you has been and is!
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