God, hear my prayer
Part 2...but you don't need Part 1 for Part 2...but they are related I guess:)
This is a continued post from my last one…about God. This one is about God, my experiences with it, and general thoughts. You know…but God in a broad sense, so I suppose it’s also about life, religion, and how humans are connected to each other. Does that make sense? Also, this one will make sense even if you haven’t read the last one…
The Serenity Prayer…
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
Ahh…knowing the difference…now that is a tough one.
We tell ourselves that we must step back! Allow people to come into their new beliefs on their own! When do we ever do anything on our own? I sure as fuck never have. Think about it, how does change occur? It’s through external inputs meshing around with the internal…
What if see myself as a coward when I have the thought that I cannot correctly and compassionately question someone’s beliefs, so that they then are open to altering their beliefs?
I cannot deny this feeling…that although most organized religions become unhinged and hallowed inside, they still correlate with existential, philosophical, and psychological questions that we all have, in that they look to answer that which we cannot know the answer.
Why can we not know the answer? Because it relies on an essence that lies within our subjective and inter-subjective experiences.
So, in a sense, I’m questioning those that ascribe strongly to one particular faith; I’m questioning their perception of the good, the true, and the beautiful; I’m questioning their perception of their own essence; I’m questioning their perception of God.
God, are you an essence?
Hear my prayer.
“My soul, my soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you — are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again…” — Carl Jung, The Red Book
God, why would you care about bad behavior? You have the entire fucking universe to worry about, but your followers wish to spend their time making moral judgments upon the disenfranchised.
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God, I do not see a reason to follow you…as you would only be a paradoxical echo and reflection of my own thoughts.
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God, what if we simply desire the comfort? So once we desire a comfort enough, we begin telling ourselves that within that comfort is some long-lost truth; a truth that we’ve finally come into after being lost.
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God, if I don’t believe in you, do you still hear my prayer?
God, I’m convinced that if you’re actually real, and let’s say you’re the Chrisitan God for this, then I’m betting you find people like me annoying. ‘But he loves you’ I know your followers would think…but I think you can love someone and still find them really fucking annoying.
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