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Pastimes : Chatting With and About God the Father
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To: gregor who wrote (280)7/16/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Gregory D. John  Read Replies (1) of 638
 
Gregor,

Thank you for you words of joy. :-)

I'd like to address one of your paragraphs that struck me as odd:
Do I take that for granted many times. Sadly I do. Do I think to myself. What kind of FOOL was God to take my place. Sadly I do. But He did, and someday maybe just maybe I will be able to understand that kind of love. As of this moment of being a Christian 30 years I do not. But I will keep trying as long as there is breath and life in me.

Taking things for granted is natural. I think realizing this is the first step to not taking things for granted. Awareness.

I don't think I've ever thought the self-sacrifice of Jesus to have been foolish or wrong, regardless of whether it is fact or symbolism. I'm a little mystified that you have though so... why?

The action of Jesus' self-sacrifice is perhaps Western culture's paradigm of noble acts. Did you grow up in Western culture? Have you ever experienced a willingness to completely sacrifice yourself for someone you love? Or, more appropriately, for someone you didn't even know... just because it was the "right" thing to do... because you were compelled to do so by your heart or your mind or your conscience or your consciousness... or whatever.

Some people call it "love" or "compassion". Personally, I kind of like describing it as "compassion". You can have compassion for someone you don't even know. I think loving someone you don't know is somehow false. I think true love is reciprocated; otherwise, it is too much like the desire for possession. Eh... maybe it's all just semantics.

Greg
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