2007-02-21 01:58:05 · 15 answers · asked by Lynne 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nothing yet. I'm still kinda lost. Some things that I think will make me happy rarely do. It's fleeting. I figure there is something out there though and if I keep looking I can find my purpose. Until then, I'm waiting for things to turn around. Life is never easy for anyone, by the way. One's life can turn around but still have challenges and pain. That's the beauty of life!
2007-02-21 02:08:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-02-21 02:01:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
i was driving home from a fishing trip and i let go of the steering wheel and said fine you think you can do a better job with my life ,fine it is yours god and right before i started to hit a poll i pulled the truck back onto the road way and said i Finlay get it lord in this life it takes us both at that moment my life was turned around
2007-02-21 02:44:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I guess it was as I grew older I think all of you will find that to be true you settle down some & explore what your life really means to you you may become a great artist film maker or writer GOOD LUCK TO YOU
2007-02-21 02:23:08 · answer #4 · answered by hobo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Zen Meditation and Thi Chi
2007-02-21 03:17:57 · answer #5 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Realizing how much I loved my family and how important I was to them and how important they were to me. It happened with a series of misfortunate becomings, but I arrived at that conclusion none the less.
2007-02-21 02:07:55 · answer #6 · answered by Randall J 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thought.
2007-02-21 02:05:40 · answer #7 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it took 20 years of doing acid, pain pills, plenty of weed,drinking 200 -300, cash a night , & then my father passed away, i got high, got in trouble & then i got smart, 14 years trouble free
2007-02-21 02:20:20 · answer #8 · answered by chuckwick 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Having kids.
2007-02-21 02:14:12 · answer #9 · answered by mypassions4life 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when I found myself lying in an alley in my own vomit with a broken shoulder and I was still trying to tie off my arm, so I could shoot some heroin
2007-02-21 02:01:10 · answer #10 · answered by Tuco 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋