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Into the Void
Submitted by reido on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 12:13. coexistence death faith lifeAll
Bill's photos and the comments following by Dr. Rao provoke me to place a few words (sorry Bill, I tried to post a response at work but it got zapped into Neverland.)
The stark beauty of the rugged West Coast is breathtaking (especially for those who enjoy motorcycling). Yes, it is being ravaged like everything else by humans seeking to dominate all existence in order to better a short term plan for wealth. The sharpness of the land reminds me that this was (and still is) a very active geology with seismic and volcanic activity. The beauty that now is, came in the aftermath of what had to be reckoned as God's Coming. Annihilation and destruction always create a void in the wake -- and that void seems to always get filled by something. It is motion.
Searching for Meaning
Submitted by bill on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 18:15. creativity Faith, Truth, Love, Happiness and other virtues life meaning purpose in lifeWe begin our lives satisfying physical and material desires. But eventually most of us will begin an ancient journey searching for Meaning. The first is material, while the second is immaterial—or spiritual. Brian McLaren describes the material quest as “boiling down to earning and buying and selling…eating and drinking and having fun…respiration, digestion, elimination, ovulation, ejaculation, gestation, reproduction, antiquation, expiration.”1 The search for Meaning cannot be so easily described.
Life, Death, Grief, and Finding Meaning in the Commons
Submitted by bill on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 15:30. death faith imago dei Kingdom of God life meaning Paradox purpose in life religionMy sister lost her husband of thirty-one years last week. It all happened rather quickly and Tuesday was the quickest that we could get out to see her to share some grief, and to begin to find some meaning for it all—especially for her as she begins to forge a new identity as half of what was, toward all of what needs becoming. But to some extent, every one who had any ties of consciousness with Fred needs to readjust to the loss, because true friends and loved ones are actually a part of us in this respect—we take each other into our selves. She has received many comments, cards, phone calls, and emails as evidence to the often surprising extent to which one person can affect many others through their lives, and consequently, also in their death.
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Life Happens, Real Living is in its Experience
Submitted by bill on Mon, 02/04/2008 - 15:57. abundant living death Faith, Meaning & Purpose lifeWe buried Don today. How sad it was—how tragic. But death is part of life. Endings bring beginnings. And funerals reunite friends and family. Such is life in the real world.
Sometimes it's the more important experiences of life that we rue—that we avoid. Yet these are the markers of the human journey. Without these milestones we would not recognize our passage through the experience of it all. Real life is in the living—even when that living includes the poignancy of a friend's death and the loss of a loved one.
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