comment on feelings and God....
(click on this link above to read an article from TIME magazine)
I played chess everyday of my life, three games of chess every day of my life - from the time I was 10 until 22 years of age.
One would think that I would be pretty good at it. I currently am playing a computer with 10 levels and I am winning 20% of the games at level 6 - not so good. In fact, I think much too fast, not thinking enough moves ahead and I see the computer doing it well - it frustrates me more and I play faster, deadlier, with no fear ... and then lose all my pieces and I resign once again.
What I like about this article is that we want to feel as a society and yet we feel that it is our very desire to satisfy our feelings that get in the way of our world living in peace. So on one hand machines provide the efficiency that we want, minus the feeling we desperately need to express and receive, and we seek to be efficient on our own, without technology and because find that the need to express or receive stands in the way of that independence, we are tempted to try and live without feeling.
It would seem, even though the author of the article expressed "God" only once, that He is the all-efficient one and yet feels at the same time. We actually are designed in His likeness and therefore the hope of being efficient and still feel is possible - but somehow linked to our Creator.
I would like to look more into this "feeling" of our faith. I want to try and stay clear of "experience" though, and focus rather on the feeling. If we struggle with anything, it is when we do not "feel" God that we think He has abandon us.
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