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i am reading some art theory , and i have read Dear Theo , and i do not understand why the world makes it so hard for the most beautiful souls , like vincent van gogh
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We don't understand perhaps because we are in many ways still children -- imperfect and unrealized. "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known." (St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians) Bad things happening is a biggie. I can say that it is only out of the trials that growth comes -- which is true -- but bad things happening are still a biggie! But for me even bigger is the promise that no trial will come along that God won't empower me to not only survive, but triumph over. I've been told by some that I can come up with some good wisdom. Not wanting to trade my fabulous hat collection in for one in a larger size I wanted to understand just how this could happen! I'm not a particularly wise man -- just an insufferable wise guy. So what happened? What happened was a lot of really bad things in my childhood. Things that I HAD to learn from and make sense of, lest they destroy me. So out of those trials, with a lot of help from God, came gold. Wisdom that not only helped me, but is now helping others. So in this light can I still call those bad things, bad anymore? Someone not too long ago asked on SP if we could go back in time and change anything about our past would we? At one time I would have responded in a heartbeat that I would go back and try to stop the abuse and tragedies I experienced. But not now. If I lose the trial, I lose the gold it's been transmuted into. And perhaps, in a strange way, I crave more trials for the wisdom I know will come when they're triumphed over. (Yea I know, strange -- but when the fear is gone life is a tremendous adventure of learning from anything and everything and looking for more!)
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The way people can be so hard on themselves sometimes. It's almost like criticizing God for what he made. I use to be like that but I realized how foolish I was.
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I don't understand people in genral. There's alot of little things and big things that people do that just makes me scratch my head... or in some cases boil with frustration.
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