On Being Good And Getting Back
When you’re living the life that you “should” be, when (with various fits and starts, falls and jumping back ups) you are doing that which you should be, when you are pursuing God’s will by virtue of doing what He wants, and NOT doing other things, when you are “Being Good” why is that not reward enough?
Why is there the thought of just recompense from God?
When we screw up, we sure are Hell (pun intended) seem to feel it/know about it; why is it not the same for “the good,” at least not on an obviously tangible level?
“Being Good is it’s own reward.” Seriously, shut it. I’m not questioning the need for doing good, or living correctly, or the spiritual rewards and internal enlightenment felt by being in the center of God’s will. No. I am refering to the need for PAITENCE in the face of other things, tangible things, which we want.
The feeling that “I am doing X, therefore, God should provide Y.” The Vending Machine God, with a twist. It’s not just begging him for a treat: we have in fact done what He has asked, and would like Him to return the favor. We have submitted to His will, and we want Him to . . . ah, yes: Submit to ours.
“There is the rub that make a calamity of so long a life . . .”
Things Looking Up . . . At Least In Poetry
* I’ve been accepted into Seattle Pacific University’s Master of Fine Arts (Poetry) Program.
* My certificate, payment and copies of my poem in Relief Journal have arrived.
Updates . . .
1. Small group info is back in action
2. Shifting some stuffs in Musicing . . . including a new page.
3. New Pictures up of my trip Home
4. 3rd Quarter is ending at school and I’m trying not to kill anyone.
5. Still trying to figure IT ALL out. Whatever that may be.
Kiss Me: I’m Irish. (go Figure)
No seriously. Check the last name. My beard turns Red. Don’t get me mad.
Too bad I don’t drink.
For the cultural anthroplogists amoungst us google the history of the Irish in Jamaica.
I Needed To Get Readjusted
So I went “home.”
Parent’s House / E’s House / Kelly’s House /Dunkin Dounts /ENC /Heather’s House / Barnes and Noble / D’angelo’s / 93 /95 /295 / 6 in RI & CT / et al.
Here are some of the pictures. <– Clicky.