We made an offer on a building today. It's a good building, one we've been in many times before. One we've tried to get two times before. The offer we made was "aggressive" (which means it was financially good for us). Now comes the time I hate....the wait. For some reason or another, patience was not something that I was graced with. I hate the waiting game.
On that thought, I got a new car the other day (new being so relative). It's an 88 VW Golf. It's a nice car, assuming that your definition of nice is something that needs to be put back together (The interior was missing...made for lots of head room). Once again, here comes the patience thing...it needs to be put back together and I do not have the skill set to do it on my own....ugh!!! Perhaps God is trying to tell me something!.
I'm reading Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. I found this quote in it today...something to think about...
"It is a law of man's nature, written into his very essence, and just as much a part of him as the desire to build houses and cultivate the land and marry and have children and read books and sing songs, that he should want to stand together with other men in order to acknowledge their common dependence on God, their Father and Creator. In fact, this desire is much more fundamental then any purely physical necessity."
Kinda makes you think...most of the above activities separate us from community (celebrating the individual) while deep inside of us, their is a pull to community, centered around God. Is that why even the most devout atheist in times of great distress will occasionally look for comfort within a faith community?
One other interesting quote...
"The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities, but by shadows, not by clarity and substance but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down the spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything."
hmmm....I think the last sentence says it all....
On that thought, I got a new car the other day (new being so relative). It's an 88 VW Golf. It's a nice car, assuming that your definition of nice is something that needs to be put back together (The interior was missing...made for lots of head room). Once again, here comes the patience thing...it needs to be put back together and I do not have the skill set to do it on my own....ugh!!! Perhaps God is trying to tell me something!.
I'm reading Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. I found this quote in it today...something to think about...
"It is a law of man's nature, written into his very essence, and just as much a part of him as the desire to build houses and cultivate the land and marry and have children and read books and sing songs, that he should want to stand together with other men in order to acknowledge their common dependence on God, their Father and Creator. In fact, this desire is much more fundamental then any purely physical necessity."
Kinda makes you think...most of the above activities separate us from community (celebrating the individual) while deep inside of us, their is a pull to community, centered around God. Is that why even the most devout atheist in times of great distress will occasionally look for comfort within a faith community?
One other interesting quote...
"The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities, but by shadows, not by clarity and substance but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down the spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything."
hmmm....I think the last sentence says it all....
