Endless Possibilities

Sipping on a fresh homemade strawberry kombucha, I’m sitting in a 600 square foot room we call “the cave”. It’s snowing outside, while I’m watching flames in the woodstove through the glass door.  The contrast of extremes is interesting.  My charcoal gray T-shirt states, I’m currently unsupervised.  I know, it freaks me out too.  But the possibilities are endless!  My long gray beard matches it well. 

My wife says that I’ve evolved into a hippie.  Yes, I do hunt mushrooms in the woods.  I also make my own herbal teas and medicines. My ROKU is playing Tibetan meditation music in the background… so she probably isn’t far from the truth.  But not a hippie, I see that culture as leading us to the drug induced, sex craved culture we see today.  I do, however, like the peace and love aspect.

It’s okay to mellow a little as we age.  Even explore new ideas and hobbies.  I wish I had discovered my older self at a younger age.  I believe the Creator cuts us some slack as we age.  I don’t believe He’s as mean as I once thought.  I really won’t get struck with lightning if I don’t attend church this week. Today, I even find a forty five minute Bible study lasts all day.  It just seems to never end.  When did Sunday school get soooooo long?

I still go to church. I just get more religion working outside, in nature, than I do in attending.  I’m at the point in life where I need more than a church, which is obsessed in the past, can give.  I like Romans 1:19-20, For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. Give me a class study on string theory, quantum mechanics, or near death experiences.  We are eternal beings of light!  If we don’t stop studying Jewish history, science will discover the real Creator before the church does.  I understand the preoccupation with the past, but is it at the cost of our present, or possibly our future?

I do have many questions about God, which remain unanswered.  But I’m looking for those answers.  It’s the person who doesn’t seek that’s in real danger.  Rejecting completely the concept of a divine creator is not even an alternative answer.  Looking at nature, the only correct one is that God is real. Design is everywhere!

The problem, is that the church has presented to us an active communicating God who has our best interest at heart.  It’s nice, but He is often silent and passive when we call.  Our pleas go unanswered as we struggle through life seemingly unaided.  It makes people reject that business model and opt for another, less religious and less churchy.  I’m not anti-church.  I am anti a church, which cannot change, especially one that claims to have all the answers.

The Bible is Religion 101.  It should make you thirsty for more knowledge, more seeking of a Creator where possibilities are endless!

Philippians 2:12-13 says to Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases Him.   Is there a “holistic” religion?  Edgar Cayce said, “Then, to be able to remember the sunset, to be able to remember a beautiful conversation, a beautiful deed done where hope and faith were created, to remember the smile of a babe, the blush of a rose, the harmony of a song—a bird’s call; these are creative.  For they are a part of thyself, they bring you closer and closer to God”

The temperature outside is 23 degrees with a wind chill of 11.  The snow is still falling along with the temps… guess I’ll go watch some UFO videos.  Just kidding!