Thursday, April 14, 2005
Remember
Its the hardest thing to do- remembering. Names, vocabulary, and lately why we are here. I dont just mean in Japan, I mean on the planet. It cant be so we can continually work meaningless jobs so we can buy more stuff or maintain "life" as we know it. It cant be simply an endless sequence of week and weekends intermitently interupted by an occassional vacation or siginificant event that could signify something new or even profitable.
A few weeks ago I saw a lady sitting on her door step, in the rain, weeping uncontrolably. Most people probably would think she had lost it and that there was something wrong with her, but I was thinking she seems to be the only normal person. The people who seem weird to me are the ones who cram themselves onto a train in a grey suit to go to a place that they hate and are daily used and abused only to repeat it daily. And then they call this progress. Alot of people would respond "well that's just life". I disagree. It seems more like death to me.
I truly believe we have corrupted "life" and made it truly ugly. We have forgotten noble things, good things, particularly God. We set up "special " times to worship Him and remember Him when it should be a "spiritually natural" event practiced everyday. Mystics used to call it practising the presence. We are distracted by so many shiny objects. I am not sying we pray more, we should be "living" more.
A few weeks ago I saw a lady sitting on her door step, in the rain, weeping uncontrolably. Most people probably would think she had lost it and that there was something wrong with her, but I was thinking she seems to be the only normal person. The people who seem weird to me are the ones who cram themselves onto a train in a grey suit to go to a place that they hate and are daily used and abused only to repeat it daily. And then they call this progress. Alot of people would respond "well that's just life". I disagree. It seems more like death to me.
I truly believe we have corrupted "life" and made it truly ugly. We have forgotten noble things, good things, particularly God. We set up "special " times to worship Him and remember Him when it should be a "spiritually natural" event practiced everyday. Mystics used to call it practising the presence. We are distracted by so many shiny objects. I am not sying we pray more, we should be "living" more.
hd 12:16 PM