Well I have learned to love God because of my life’s moments of angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, death, ecstasy, envy, faith, fantasy, hatred, love, playfulness. This list partially describes my existence, my experience in the world. God makes each situation tolerable when we listen to him. God provides may possible solutions to our daily crises.
We may talk of our relationship with God in terms which evoke the possibility of eternal life and the necessity of Christ’s teachings on social justice and tolerance.
What a remarkable start to a personal spiritual philosophy! We must always remember the artificiality of the secular based world. We, as Christians, must allow ourselves to challenge our existence; our lives should not be complacent compromises of forced conformity to the current whims and trends of modernity and intellectualization. It is typical to expect diminished individual responsibility in contemporary thought where all mistakes in life are the result of some external variable. There is acceptable and unacceptable behavior which often do not naturally correspond to either good or bad. Modernity purposefully curbs most moral and ethical questions; the artifice allows for thwarted and deformed consciences. Truth, honesty, and goodness are curbed and perpetually compromised. There is always disappointment in our lives; our faith and belief in God helps us deal with this and to overcome it.
Prayer allows us the hope of an eventual satisfying fruition of our hopes; we must always work to live lives based upon humility, charity, mercy and forgiveness. We must always confront and avoid the artifice of modernity which often allows sin and vice to flourish and hide.
We must let our faith teach us how to love, how to bear witness in God’s name, and how to pray.
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