God's matthew
What god means to me…
• God is love and all expressions of that. Spiritual isolation may be hazardous to our health. It makes me feel bad, sad, not glad. The opposite of spiritual isolation is love.
• God shows me rainbows on dreary days. I have dug down deep for three words and God leads me on that path—movement, service, inspiration.
• God is nature moon, sun, stars. God is prayer. God is people. God is all-knowing.
• A step in faith is a step in power. God is just there…all the time.
• God walks with me..like that poster I used to have. “My child, where there is only one set of footprints, that is where I carried you.”
• I feel close to god when I am in stillness.
• God is someone I talk to, but don’t always get an answer in the form I want.
• God is molding me, even if I don’t know what the purpose of the current event is. I believe it fits into something larger, but sometimes that is SO hard to accept.
• God is someone who gives me challenges, but nothing I cannot handle…even if that is hard to grasp sometimes.
• Live a surrendered life…god took Andrew, so there is nothing else but to surrender. It takes less energy to give it all up. If god has taken family from me, what else is there, but to follow God. “A person must be willing to be dashed on the rocks or made the fool in exchange for a relationship in order for pure love to take place. And in our spirituality, anything less indicates a question of God’s character.” (searching for God knows what—donald miller)
• God is the mystery, majesty, and wonder, of which I will only ever know a very little piece.
• God has a very strong calling on me.
• God has a plan, and that involved my brother and dad bowing out before I wanted, so I will seek god to the ends of the earth and beyond..I guess that's my bottom line. I miss them so much and struggle with the "why" every day.
A prayer for Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace—
Where there is hatred,
Let me sow love;
Where there is injury,
Let me sow pardon;
Where there is doubt,
Let me sow faith;
Where there is despair,
Let me sow hope;
Where there is darkness,
Let me sow light;
Where there is sadness,
Let me sow joy.
I don’t believe in God/church
• Because people just “give it up to god” giving up of personal responsibility. It’s important to me to take personal responsibility for all I do. “I’m trying” isn’t really good enough for me.
• Because the Christian “church” doesn’t agree with yoga. Yoga is an effective way I have found to strengthen the temple that will serve the Lord. Churches I have been to don’t or won’t understand the yoga thing. Yoga is important to me.
• Because a lot of shit has happened because of god/religion/Christian.
• Or is it I don’t believe in organized religion because of rumi—“be a friend to all religions” that is what I resonate most with. If god loves all people, why do religions exclude some people in bad/negative ways? I cannot exclude one religion over the other. There is no one way/path…does that mean sufi is out too? But I was attracted to Sufi because of the unconditional love I felt that I don’t feel anywhere else.
• Because how could God take my brother? I don’t understand. But I also remembering hearing “faith is where understanding stops.”
• I don’t believe in god because I place more value on daily actions than what I say I believe.
• Because my heart tells me what to do. OK…so it could be God.
• I fear that going deeper in the “rules and regulations” of the church will chase away the love. I don’t go to church to follow rules, I go to connect—to people, to music, to God. I don’t want to give up the parts of me that don’t “fit” with the church.
I believe in God/church
• I don’t believe this earth was a random dice thing.
• I believe in what jesus was trying to do and I wish more people acted like him. I try to follow what he did. Treat people the way he did. Our culture eats people truly like that.
• Because the Vineyard Boston has good live music—Unitaritan music is not very exciting, it makes me sad most of the time. I want to be excited. I feel excited when I am connected to god. Contemporary (klove.com) music is how I connect most to God right now. I’m a musician and drummer. That will never change.
• Because I try to see god in everyone I come in contact with.
• Because I keep asking what he/she wants from me, my life, my work, but only get senses. I want burning bushes.
• Because god tells me what to do.
• I feel it’s more exciting to be connected to something bigger than just me.
big things can happen if I “step out on the water.”
• God is love and all expressions of that. Spiritual isolation may be hazardous to our health. It makes me feel bad, sad, not glad. The opposite of spiritual isolation is love.
• God shows me rainbows on dreary days. I have dug down deep for three words and God leads me on that path—movement, service, inspiration.
• God is nature moon, sun, stars. God is prayer. God is people. God is all-knowing.
• A step in faith is a step in power. God is just there…all the time.
• God walks with me..like that poster I used to have. “My child, where there is only one set of footprints, that is where I carried you.”
• I feel close to god when I am in stillness.
• God is someone I talk to, but don’t always get an answer in the form I want.
• God is molding me, even if I don’t know what the purpose of the current event is. I believe it fits into something larger, but sometimes that is SO hard to accept.
• God is someone who gives me challenges, but nothing I cannot handle…even if that is hard to grasp sometimes.
• Live a surrendered life…god took Andrew, so there is nothing else but to surrender. It takes less energy to give it all up. If god has taken family from me, what else is there, but to follow God. “A person must be willing to be dashed on the rocks or made the fool in exchange for a relationship in order for pure love to take place. And in our spirituality, anything less indicates a question of God’s character.” (searching for God knows what—donald miller)
• God is the mystery, majesty, and wonder, of which I will only ever know a very little piece.
• God has a very strong calling on me.
• God has a plan, and that involved my brother and dad bowing out before I wanted, so I will seek god to the ends of the earth and beyond..I guess that's my bottom line. I miss them so much and struggle with the "why" every day.
A prayer for Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace—
Where there is hatred,
Let me sow love;
Where there is injury,
Let me sow pardon;
Where there is doubt,
Let me sow faith;
Where there is despair,
Let me sow hope;
Where there is darkness,
Let me sow light;
Where there is sadness,
Let me sow joy.
I don’t believe in God/church
• Because people just “give it up to god” giving up of personal responsibility. It’s important to me to take personal responsibility for all I do. “I’m trying” isn’t really good enough for me.
• Because the Christian “church” doesn’t agree with yoga. Yoga is an effective way I have found to strengthen the temple that will serve the Lord. Churches I have been to don’t or won’t understand the yoga thing. Yoga is important to me.
• Because a lot of shit has happened because of god/religion/Christian.
• Or is it I don’t believe in organized religion because of rumi—“be a friend to all religions” that is what I resonate most with. If god loves all people, why do religions exclude some people in bad/negative ways? I cannot exclude one religion over the other. There is no one way/path…does that mean sufi is out too? But I was attracted to Sufi because of the unconditional love I felt that I don’t feel anywhere else.
• Because how could God take my brother? I don’t understand. But I also remembering hearing “faith is where understanding stops.”
• I don’t believe in god because I place more value on daily actions than what I say I believe.
• Because my heart tells me what to do. OK…so it could be God.
• I fear that going deeper in the “rules and regulations” of the church will chase away the love. I don’t go to church to follow rules, I go to connect—to people, to music, to God. I don’t want to give up the parts of me that don’t “fit” with the church.
I believe in God/church
• I don’t believe this earth was a random dice thing.
• I believe in what jesus was trying to do and I wish more people acted like him. I try to follow what he did. Treat people the way he did. Our culture eats people truly like that.
• Because the Vineyard Boston has good live music—Unitaritan music is not very exciting, it makes me sad most of the time. I want to be excited. I feel excited when I am connected to god. Contemporary (klove.com) music is how I connect most to God right now. I’m a musician and drummer. That will never change.
• Because I try to see god in everyone I come in contact with.
• Because I keep asking what he/she wants from me, my life, my work, but only get senses. I want burning bushes.
• Because god tells me what to do.
• I feel it’s more exciting to be connected to something bigger than just me.
big things can happen if I “step out on the water.”
