Some would say that it is splintered into so many ugly pieces that it is beyond repair. Some would use that perspective to justify not caring about any other human being except themselves. Some would go beyond that and use it to create even more division on a grand and sometimes global scale.
First of all, let's go back to that word, "perspective". EVERYthing about life is a personal perspective, and as the saying goes, we each create our own reality. There is no all-encompassing "reality" for ALL people - just try to get two people to agree exactly on anything and you will have to concede that point. They will each have at least, a slightly different take on most any topic. Then take that concept to a global level, and try to get 7-plus BILLION people to agree on anything. I rest my case on that one.
So many human issues....poverty, hunger, bullying, sexual assault, addiction...the list is endless. And these issues are NOT specific to any geological location on this planet, they exist to some degree in all parts of the world. For many centuries these same issues repeated themselves over and over, and it just seems at times that these became permanent fixtures in the human experience. It seemed we would NEVER pull ourselves out of it, and that this would be an endless cycle, until....who knows. There are many theories on what humans are becoming and what we are facing in our collective future. Everything from complete extinction, to a new and Golden Age of peace, joy and prosperity for all.
I do much prefer to imagine our world as the latter. Let's face it, at the fundamental level, this is what ALL of us truly desire. Forget about the warmongers, the greedy politicians, Big Business lobbying governments to back their nefarious schemes to control the world through the entire world's monetary system, food supply, pharmaceuticals that are not properly studied, etc....these types of entities represent the gross result of the other end of the spectrum of the human condition. I call that....the "separation of ego".
You see...there is really only one true condition of humanity, albeit seen as being at least two and usually many more. Our true condition is Love. This is what we are, what we came from. That God-spark lives in each of us, no matter how far we have become separated from that center.
There is Love, our true reality, and then there is ego - that part of us that separated from our center, in order to experience other aspects of ourselves. It was truly an endeavour borne of our own loving natures, and so the INTENTIONS were initially good. Look around today, and you will see just how far we have taken it....
Once you understand that there are only those two aspects of humanity - Love, and ego, then most everything else becomes clear as a mountain spring. And when you realize that there is only one TRUE aspect of human Spirit, Love, then you have it made.
This is really the basis that builds a Bridge of Light, and we will be following up on that concept on this site.
In the meantime, enjoy these quotes:
“We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.”
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey
― Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey
“We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it
is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his
love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not
because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he
has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all
of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to
understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity,
are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as
children, through Jesus Christ our lord.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
― Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
“There's one thing you need to understand," Larry said. "We love
because God first loved us, even in the face of all our unloveliness."
He paused. He seemed to want to give John time to think about that.
Then he said, "Go home and love your wife John."
I'm afraid I can't find the strength in myself to do that, Larry."
Pastor Larry leaned forward, smiling tenderly. "That's good, my friend," he said. "Now we're getting somewhere.”
― Ann Tatlock, The Returning
I'm afraid I can't find the strength in myself to do that, Larry."
Pastor Larry leaned forward, smiling tenderly. "That's good, my friend," he said. "Now we're getting somewhere.”
― Ann Tatlock, The Returning
“But O the exceeding grace
Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.”
― Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queen Book 1 Ed Bayley
Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.”
― Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queen Book 1 Ed Bayley
“And human love needs human meriting:
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?”
― Francis G. Thompson, The Hound of Heaven
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?”
― Francis G. Thompson, The Hound of Heaven
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.”
― John 4:13, 4
― John 4:13, 4
“...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's
humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He
chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an
old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf
or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing
was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not
too long for its accomplishment.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch
― Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch
“And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom -
if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to
love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which
we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses
to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power,
is itself powerless.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
― Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
“What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!”
― John Ortberg Jr., Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
― John Ortberg Jr., Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
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