Maybe some of you will find this interesting,
and perhaps it may spark some debate...
Recite:
My people are oppressed by the meaninglessness of lives they must live hemmed in to no purpose.
They have achieved all that they had wanted, and found that gold and dross are the same.
They have dragged the joys of living into the marketplace and sold them at auction, like orphans and slaves.
Then they seek for solace in drugs to dull their pain, and to compensate for the impotence of their daily experience.
They work for blood money at purposeless jobs, only so they may pour their sweat into the bottomless pit of consumption.
They can build nothing for the future because they are blinded by their own base desires.
Indeed, they promise their own children as slaves to the tyrants of tomorrow, to pay debts they have allowed their leaders to borrow.
All of these torments they suffer, because they do not seek a vision of the God they wish was dead,
and whom they cannot hear due to their lack of faith.
-Odysseus Yerushalmi, the wandering prophet.
Does this resemble anything you have experienced, or seen in other people's lives? What do you think?
This post is an experiment. I invite your comments.
"May Adonai bless you and protect you! May Adonai deal kindly and graciously with you! May Adonai lift up his countenance upon you and grant you peace!" (Torah, Numbers 6:24-26) And Jesus said, "Allow the little children to come unto me. Forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God. Truly, I say unto you, unless you receive the Kingdom of God as a little child does, you shall not enter therein." (New Testament, Mark 10:14-16)
Sojourning at an Oasis Paradise
My purpose for living this life, and for writing this blog, is to understand the faith that links us to God. I wish to explore and discuss the reality at the heart of all of the world's religions. This is an immense task, but I know that God also has faith in us, trusting that we do desire the truth, as well as freedom, love and wisdom. Thus, as always, He meets us halfway. Even as God has given us individual souls, so we must each of us trace out an individual pathway to God. Whether we reside in the cities of orthodox religion, or wend our solitary ways through the barren wastelands, God watches over us and offers us guidance and sustenance for the journey.
Most of what you will see here is the result of extensive personal study, combined with some careful speculation. Occasionally, I may simply offer some Scripture or an inspirational text. I am a wide reader, and the connection of some topics and ideas to matters of faith and religion may not seem immediately obvious, but perhaps I may spell it out in the end... or maybe, you will decide that it was just a tangent. Anyway, I hope that you will find my meanderings to be spiritually enlightening, intellectually stimulating, or at least somewhat entertaining.
Most of what you will see here is the result of extensive personal study, combined with some careful speculation. Occasionally, I may simply offer some Scripture or an inspirational text. I am a wide reader, and the connection of some topics and ideas to matters of faith and religion may not seem immediately obvious, but perhaps I may spell it out in the end... or maybe, you will decide that it was just a tangent. Anyway, I hope that you will find my meanderings to be spiritually enlightening, intellectually stimulating, or at least somewhat entertaining.
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