Take ~5 minutes to read this 'COUGARS Daily' which contains snippets from A Slice of Infinity. Invite your family and friends to participate in reading with you daily. Then, consider sharing your comments or faith questions at CougarsDaily.blogspot.com
NOTE Format Change: As you might have noticed, there was no posting yesterday (Wednesday, May 21st) Occasionally, RZIM does not distribute 'A Slice of Infinity' prior to my going to work. It was recently suggested that we work one day behind. I think this is a good idea for a few reasons, including:
1. A selfish reason, I do not have to 'wait' in the mornings to get the post out
2. I would like to see COUGARS be a community with more input from everyone. Typically, we get very few comments; which is fine. I understand that some may not feel comfortable sharing their thoughts. However, if we can read 'A Slice of Infinity' on our own time during the day and intently follow up with our comments, perhaps we will have more diverse input.
So, from this point forward, I would like you to read 'A Slice of Infinity' on the day it comes out. You can sign up to receive it via email, or you can take the RSS feed on your web browser. Once you read it, I would like you to email me any of your thoughts and reflections. I will then combine the comments for the following days COUGARS snippets. As always, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
So, Here are the snippets from yesterday. Remember, this is one day back, so when you have time, read today's 'A Slice of Infinity' and then send me you comments. If you have comments about this particular post, please log in to the blog and post there.
- “For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.”- Galatians 5:13
..But there is also a danger in labeling evil without understanding our common and irrefutable need for God ourselves. When God is taken out of the picture, evil is misunderstood. Apart from God, evil becomes reasonable, mistaken for a euphemistic quality. You can be good simply for the sake of goodness; but you would not do something wrong simply because it is wrong, but because it was in some way satisfying or useful. Wickedness, Lewis reasoned, is the pursuit of some good in a wrong way. Apart from God, we may recognize the evil around us in terrorism and serial killing, and yet altogether fail to see the ugliness of our own pride or the ill motive of our own words.
Chad's Comments:
I am interested in this quote from Lewis, "wickedness is the pursuit some good in a wrong way". When I look back on things I've personally done, or look at things I might label as evil or bad by others, in the light of this being the pursuit of some good in a wrong way, I can begin to see that even in our wrong actions, we are looking for something good. I think it was again Lewis or maybe Pope John Paul (feel free to correct me) who said something like, 'any man who goes into a brothel is looking for God'.
Secondly, I'm feeling like sharing something from Meredith Rankin. Meredith is the cousin of Misty (one of our Cougars group) Meredith recently gave up the battle against colon cancer and is now with Jesus. As we look at the problem of pain and suffering, (some put evil in this category) we may raise the fairness question. When a person commits an 'evil' or 'bad' action/inaction, we might label them as evil. However, when suffering occurs, we begin to cry 'unfair'. Some anti-theists even go so far as to call God cruel or 'evil' Himself. Are we as creatures really able to posit that God is unfair? Can we as clay say to the potter, "hey, I don't want to be a vase". How much more our lives could be if we could simply meet our maker and have Him show us what we are really made for.
Is it fair that some people suffer from Aids and I don't? Is it fair that some people do not have homes and I do? Is it fair that some are riddled with disease and I am healthy? NO, its not fair. But I am saved by the grace of God through His son Jesus Christ our Lord, and that's not fair! - Meredith Rankin
Remember: to comment on this thread, visit the blog. Also, read today's slice and email me with your comments/questions/prayers for tomorrows post.
* Make Space for friends in your life. Enjoin them to belief.
* Post your stories of God's intervention on the blog.
* Look for ways to share Awe and Wonder with children - leave suggestions at CougarsDaily.blogspot.com
* Consider joining Life-Devotions (a group of about 100 catholics and protestants sharing their faith through daily devotions and discussion - strong pro Life content)
* The Street Church
* Voice of the Martyrs
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