tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post2761519852027763125..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: Sea Stars, Hustlerchristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-66547741767274559482009-03-10T15:44:00.000-07:002009-03-10T15:44:00.000-07:00K. Thanks for your comment. I tend to the one si...K. Thanks for your comment. I tend to the one side, hence the serendipity idea. Happy good luck is God's favor. I agree though that point of view is important in all this. I hear in AA all the time that people believe they must have a purpose BECAUSE God has saved them from alcoholic death. I go What? Maybe. People demand God be on their side. That lies behind a whole bunch of human imposed misery on the planet.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, I hear some theologians who assert "God loves to be used. Ask Him. It will be given." For example, this is asserted in many kinds of New Thought, which is Christianized neo-Platonism in several different variations.<BR/><BR/>I tend to like the idea of God Who loves to be used, but I do believe there are lots of trumping considerations, like never ever violating anyone's free will in any situation I might wish special favor. Any act God might do on the planet has to thread exquisitely through all the intersections and conflicts of free will, and not only human but all sentient creatures. Thus the virus which sickens me is as much God's creature as I am. He will not intervene. Not without real reason. I doubt that I am that essential to anything. If I am essential to God's plan, then a miracle might come my way.<BR/><BR/>Still the kinds of long shots that are involved in my being where I am get kind of spooky when you line them all up. Not just one but several. I would have trouble if I had been made a famous fellow somehow too. I would kind of take that as me being one of God's favorites too. It would be hard not to do that. I sure am aware that there is a point of view in it.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-52695143341211557892009-03-10T15:08:00.000-07:002009-03-10T15:08:00.000-07:00Life is a glorified crap shoot, a risky and uncert...Life is a glorified crap shoot, a risky and uncertain venture. I like the way you have examined your life here and deemed yourself a lucky man. Much of what happens is random and either lucky or unlucky. Didn't those mothers of the other young men pray for their sons, too - the ones who died in war? I have been searching for the meaning of life for many years....Today I say it is a crap shoot - tomorrow I may think differently!<BR/><BR/>Loved Sea Stars and Hustler - a beautiful juxtaposition of the two ways of looking at life... yes, tomorrow I may be devinely guided. I hope I am.K.Lawson Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204234196229710524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-9211064149265323952009-03-10T05:53:00.000-07:002009-03-10T05:53:00.000-07:00Maybe you bought up lots of karma points in your p...Maybe you bought up lots of karma points in your past life, lol!<BR/><BR/>Seriously though, I think it's ideal to really appreciate the good stuff that comes our way. Sometimes we have to hit rock bottom a few times to understand what 'up' really means, to appreciate things like the gift of that star that floated upstream for you.RachelWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18225401230724459199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-10163890860516937362009-03-10T03:02:00.000-07:002009-03-10T03:02:00.000-07:00Christopher - I often wonder at the twists of fate...Christopher - I often wonder at the twists of fate that grant to one and withhold from another. Right place at right time? Grace of God? Serendipity? I don't know. All I know is that we had better be grateful for every good thing in our lives. I have to believe there's a purpose in all of this, else nothing would make sense in this world. Making the world a little better for someone else is the light inside.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-40906516853522839602009-03-10T00:25:00.000-07:002009-03-10T00:25:00.000-07:00The fact that you aren't whinging for more says 10...The fact that you aren't whinging for more says 1000 wordsMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816138640432897870noreply@blogger.com