Why does God like to play favorites?

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Apologies

I do apologise anyway, I didn't mean to stop people believing what they want to believe, was just posting my view on life and my experience.

I do realise the US is a very religous country, over here the general opinion is quite different - as you can see from what we have pasted onto the side of some of our buses...

Jon =)

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You're still a young man

I see in your profile that you've turned 30. Let me tell you, that was one of the most difficult transition periods for me. Even 50 was a breeze compared to 30! I was kind of fed-up at that point, too. After spending too many years in an abusive relationship, ending up broke and despondent; dealing with all the drunks, cheaters, liars and users that seemed to find me without any trouble.

At 31 I finally met Mr. Right.

Time isn't running out. It can and will happen if you remain open to it.
 
Goodness,

Jon, I'm the one who gets kicked in the nuts here by the Right-Wing Christians, normally, so if you've been getting flamed, my sincere sympathy.

I meant my question seriously - I just don't see how anyone can flat out state "there is/are no god/God/gods". I've been told that I'm an idiot here for saying so before, but I just don't see how one may prove a negative. So, please, don't feel I was attacking you.

And, yes, I do, personally believe in God...tho' not in the hateful jerk of a gawd of the super religious fascists...

And not all Americans are Right-Wing Christians, either, Just as not all Germans are Nazis, not all the English are CoE...nor are all thinking Brits necessarily strong devotees of Christopher Hitchens, who, if one bothers to actually read his writings, refuses to endorse that advertisement, because he grants that only a fool is certain he knows there is or knows there is no god.... Some of my dearest friends are pagans, in Sheffield. Well, they're transplanted Scots, but the principle holds.

Could it be that you are conflating religious beliefs (which are often pretty stupid, and not only in the US, tho' I grant you some of the most hateful bitches are among those who most loudly proclaim their religion, and Christianity has not monopoly on hateful queens...) with the potential existence of a higher being?
 
Panthera

Your are refering to those who sit in the front pews and sing louder than the rest. Iknow a LOT of them..

Life is what happens to you while you are making plans to do something else!
 
As Quentin Crips one said during a performance:

God is quite busing suspending the planets and making them rotate for the days/nights and seasons that she may not have time to think about you not gettng the exact type and color of bicycle you wanted on your 10th birthday.
 
Very good toggles

Now stand up and take a bow before God Slaps us all.

KEVEN most of my family was that way too.. No matter what happened it was God punshiment for something I had done.. I really wish I had known my German Parents or what really happened.. just dont think it would have been that way in Augsburg.
 
Well, Lee (Mac),

Maybe your transgressions were so B I G, it would take God to punish them???

Teasing, my dear, teasing.

Augsburg is a city built on the principle of live and let live. Literally - Treaty of Augsburg.

You'd have found your German parents probably not crazy about you being gay (unless you wanted to marry a man with kids, in which case that would be fine) but your passion for clean washing would have more than made up for any supposed failings. Here (I am 20 minutes drive from Augsburg), cleanliness is not just next to Godliness....
 
I was going to say something profound

But then I found myself glowing and I started to speak in an Irish accent so now I have to say:
God loves you. He loves everyone, it's just sometimes you have to love yourself, even forgive yourself before the true blessings will befall you. Sometimes you feel all alone, just look around. Many times you don't get things when you want them, but when God knows you are ready for them. Now start by looking in the mirror and say to yourself, "I love you." and mean it.

Now I have to get going, Tess and Andrew are waiting for me.
 
ah, yes, big

woops! Better not say what I was about to or the blue-rinsed ladies will get the vapours.

We'll just leave it at...you fit well into Texas...where everything is bigger...

iheartmaytag...try having a Scottish mother and an Irish partner for rumbling rrrrs and droped th's...
 
Keven

maybe I should have said and that many too.. When I said Bless me Father for I have sinned he would yes I know I was there! you would be shocked what went on when wifes were at Garden club meetings.. Oh how I loved those, and the things that really went on in a small country cowboy town.. Just feeding a couple of horses could take hours if done with the right person helping!!!!!
 
Oh, yes,

well, my high school covered the ranchers and farmers out to Timnath and beyond. Manys an afternoon I went home for dinner with a cowboy from my class (yes, I was a freak back when it wasn't yet spelled phreak) and discovered that the skills gained persuading bossy to let down have other applications.

Wow, haven't milked a cow since friends of ours in the north of Germany took a week off for their daughter's wedding and we volunteered to run their little farm for them.

Yee-Haw, it was fun...for a week. Goats are easier. And before somebody says it's all done by machine now, you still had to get her goin' on all four (and sometimes five!) cylinders before you hooked her up...stroke and twist. Ah, yes...
 
SQ

Try having everything you love and cherrish other than the clothes on your back stolen like theaves in the night including your pets.I was real sick and died 3 times with hyoper active thyroidism and Grace'a disease.It effected my emotions,thoughts and strpped me of all my involintery body functions.I was bitter,hatefull and depressed to the point of suicide. John Le Fever,Tom Steyer and Jon in Boston will tell you how horrible it made me. I lost many "friends" except those who realy loved me and,even though I was a true bitch causing havoc among friends,they knew that something was deffinately wrong.Even though I was homeless living under a bridge on I83 and had nobody to help me,somehow,the God I know and trust, with no bitterness or hatetrid toward Him,reached out and led me to where I am today.Nothing is perfect or permanant and I learned from losing everything that material things are temporary but spiritual things are permanent and need to be properly maintaines through prayers,fasting and faith.Without those,you're sunk. We all choose our own paths to walk and if there becomes a detore or dead end,it may be hard and take some time but that's what it's all about. We all make mistakes but,learning from them and not repeating them over and over again is what we call life.bitterness,hatred and vengince do nothing but tare up your insides and cause your heart to harden.Just like a cancer,it eats us up inside out.It takes a lot more muscles to froun than it does to smile. I haven't had a boyfriend for almost twenty years. Maybe a few one night stands but no serious relationship. I am not bitter,angry or depressed about that. I had four lov ers in my life and only the third one was my true love and he died of a massive heart attack.My fourth one,Ron,who was married and had four sons,just died of cancer this past August.I thought it strange to recdeive an email from his wife of 43 years!! she said she was aware of our "weekend endevors" after finding a receipt for some washer parts in Ron's pocket. No bitterness from either end though.So,my own track record isn't that great but,I'm not bitter or angry. Maybe a bit disapointed but not bitter.Trust,faith and belief are the three main tools you need to use.You make your own choices,not God.
 
Chuck Very well put

I too lost my love about 7 mons. ago. Ray was totally crazy for me. So much so he had his brother bring him here first to tell me he loved me Before he was taken to the hospital. I have always thought if maybe he had gone on to the hospital he might have made it. Never thought a 39 year old big scraping guy like him could die of pueumonia. Yes very hurt and painful and still is. But never felt like God was punishing me for anything. that is just life. No one has all the good all the time.

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Lee:

Sustained effort in your endeavours is very important to realising your goals. God may be very important in whatever is going on in this universe, but so is stick-to-it-iveness. If you want a partner, it's not enough to go to a bar once in a while, sitting and talking only when spoken to. You have to go out to lots of places, and you have to have the spherical brass elements to go up to everybody you like the looks of and talk to them. It's the same in business. I'm on staff at a national magazine, and that's wonderful, but only today I sent out my resume to someone advertising for a free-lancer, and also filed a story with a magazine I've written for in the past. You have to keep moving, is my point; you won't get more if you don't ask for it - long, loud and often.

P.S.: That story I filed? They bought it. Wouldn't have happened if I hadn't worked on cooking up an idea, putting it on paper, and sending it to them. It would have been easy to say, "Oh, no one's been in touch to ask me to write anything," and leave it at that.

"Some people sit on their butts
Got the dreams, yeah, but not the guts
Well, that's peachy for some people
For some hum-drum people, I suppose
Well they can sit and
rot!
But not Rose!
"

- Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy, 1959
 
Ruby Slippers

But then I found myself glowing and I started to speak in an Irish accent so now I have to say:
God loves you. He loves everyone, it's just sometimes you have to love yourself, even forgive yourself before the true blessings will befall you. Sometimes you feel all alone, just look around. Many times you don't get things when you want them, but when God knows you are ready for them. Now start by looking in the mirror and say to you, "I love you." and mean it.

What a perfect way saying, "It is when we accept the fact that are exactly who and what we were designed to be at conception and the Loving Source said, "This is my Beloved Child in Whom I am well pleased." For so many years I was steeped in self hatred and destruction, bitter in my uptight moralistic behaviors. Why did it appear so many were enjoying themselves while I was caught in bitterness? Slowly and with guidance I began to accept the expression of who I am and quit niggling God to fix or change me, the creation The Loving source created in It's perfection. I stopped grabbing at every branch and went into the Flow. Accepting my self allowed me to move beyond bitterness. It was a magical moment when I was in church with an amazing musical minister and healer, Karen Drucker who performs at many New Thought churches. I felt, accepted and moved into knowing there wasn't any judgment, reproach or separation from the One. I could be gay, find a partner, go into the world living free and taking God along with me, understand It enjoys, fun, life and sexual expression. Where ever I go there is no loss. I find Love where it is or more Love, Peace and More Peace and Acceptance and More acceptances. There is Law of Equivalence and Attraction. One would say we cannot be granted riches if we are not ready to be responsible. The other say what we think and where we put our attentions attract similar expressions. I found Love, Acceptance, and protection in Spirit. An exception man was nearly delivered to my door step and we are in our 5 year together. I love consumed and enmeshed with my Love for God and my Love for Life. I move from a place of Fulfillment into more Fulfillments, more Satisfaction and More Peace. It all began with baby steps, like swiping a credit cared and its approved. Over and over the card is used and it never rejected. Soon there no doubt or worry but knowing we are Loved and Abundance falls around us. God speaks to legions of angels that surround and support us, but according to prophecy we must first ask them to serve us. It is the terrible self talk that Spirits hear as well. It may first need to begin as an exercise until it becomes a faith based knowing. I have always loved God absolutely adored Jesus and speak in continuum with the Holy Spirit. I have opened to knowing God expresses with many faiths, many faces and often in the times of greatest need. My view of who God is has no rigid description. I operate in a place of Knowing God, The Source, The Universe; The Force for God enfolds us. It was mine first to accept I am lovable before it begin to express Itself in my Life. I also had a doozey of a story, abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment etc. I carried it like Atlas carried the world and I was ready to tell anyone who listened, "This is my story and it explains why I am the way I am. It had to purpose but to control and divert my attention from knowing none of that was God's plan nor did the Mother/Father God ever want it to happen. I finally needed to let go of the story, leave the story at God's feet and in nakedness and with no supporting props begin my journey into Love. I know in this moment none of these hurtful setbacks and disappointments are of God nor are they the truth of who you are. In this moment those falsehoods and hurts are bound and Love, Unconditional Love the Source that feeds us all stand ready to lift you above the fray and begin the Loving task of letting it all happen. Old things pass away and everything is new. So it is and I know just as Luke said in the New Testament, "let there be" it is done as I speak and release my words into the Automatic action of the law and say "It is done and so it is." I ache for you, for that is who I was for 54 long and difficult years. The last 5 have been miraculous, easy and I truly live in Satisfaction and Fulfillment. My wish for you and for everyone who reads this is that you know your are Loved. It is so much more profound that a word or and action. It is a feeling, knowing and being fully surrounded with Love. I feel like an old television that finally got cable. My picture is clear and bright and it is all because I am created by a Loving Source and I know walk in that Power, the Power of Truth.
We can be born again and just as I welcome three children to the world, I was made fresh and new, given all the benefits of heaven. Flesh of His flesh and bone of Hos bone, joints heirs to the vastness of the Heavens and Universe, they are all mine, my Divine rights as the Beloved Child. Good Luck.

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