Musing from a Pandemic

Transitions are hard. They are fraught with conflict, divisions, break downs, and extra work. Is this what constructive destruction is like? There will be no going back. Things will be broken that can’t be fixed and things will be created that can’t be unmade. If you ignore the change you will be left behind.

Everything that is know for certain is in question. Things that you would think would never happen will. Things that you think will happen will not. It is the challenge in conquering the beast.

I could give examples but they are fraught with interpretation error and are not likely to happen again. What wisdom could I bestow? Fight the fight push through God is there in the future as well as the past we just don’t know the future yet. Remember you are not God. Keep your prospective in check.

How do we deal with it? One step at a time, one conversation at a time, one project at a time.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.

Loved by God

 God help us to understand that we are loved by you and that is the most important thing to take value from

God help us to realize that everything else fades away

God help us to seek out your plan for our lives

God help us to trust you and seek you in every part of our lives

God help us to hear your voice in our lives

Solid Rock

God help us to realize you are the only solid rock

God help us to realize all else is shifting sand

God help us to realize discerning your will for us is our life goal

God help us to gain value in your love for us and forget everything else

God help us to trust you

God help us to listen to you

Fill our lives with your presence

Free Speech

 

Websites including the large companies like to portray themselves as non partisan platforms but in reality they are a corporations with distinct goals and objectives more like a newspaper. As such they will most likely follow popular opinion to maximize profit and readership (not unlike newspapers). They are not a public forum owned by the public like a university. I believe just like newspapers, websites, and churches due to free speak laws should be able to decide what is published and what is not. I think forcing websites to keep publishing "Authors" would have larger implications. I think a website or newspaper should always have the right to decided who is allowed to "publish" and who is not allowed to "publish". If a website is forced to "publish" an "author" I think this would be a greater damage to free speak. Any website (church, organization .. etc.) is then under risk of having to publish views that it disagrees with. True to free speech if anyone is "cancelled" as an "Author" they always have the right to open their own website to "publish" their content. 

 

On the other hand we have to be very mindfully of what control large websites have and how they can control messaging similar to newspapers/radio/TV previously. You might say but large companies control which websites can be found. True but but if I look back in history before the internet there was more message control as then only the people with resources could start their own newspaper, flyer, radio to state their opinion. Now a website can be opened with very little money and there is many other search engines other the the normal ones. I would argue that it is much easier to get you view heard and seen than at any other time in history.

 

Let's use our opportunities wisely.

 

God help us to gain your wisdom

God help us to see through the fog

God help us to trust in you

God help us to be still and hear your voice

God Master of All

God help us to realize how small we are

God help us to see how small money is

God help us to realize our only value is your love for us.

God help us to realize everything here is temporary

God help us to search and find the permanent

God speak your truth to us

God speak your words to us

God speak your love to us.

Forgetting Self

God help us to forget ourselve

God help us to realize how little we understand

God bring us to your cup

God burn in us your eternal flame

God help us to give up anything temporal and trade for the eternal

God's Love

God help us to understand your love

God help us to bring us into a point where we can understand your mysteries

God help us to trust you

God help us to follow you

Surpassing Worth

 

Philippians 3:8 (NIV) "What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them Garbage, that I may gain Christ"

God help us to focus on knowing Christ Jesus
God help us forget all our earthly goals and focus on you
God help us to know what you have called us to do
God help us to forget all that you have not called us to do
God help us to focus on the truly import things and never doubt what you told us

Providence

 

"And if we believe that God is everywhere, why should we not think Him Present even in the coincidences that sometimes seem so strange? For, if He be in the things that coincide, He must be in the coincidences of those things." George Macdonald

 

God help us to see you in all things

God help us to seek after you

God help us to listen to you

God help us to hear your voice 

When We Do Not Find Him

 

"Thy hand be on the latch to open the door at His first knock. Shouldst thou open the door and not see Him, do not say He did not knock, but understand that He is there, and wants thee to go out to Him. It may be He has something for thee to do for Him. Go and do it, and perhaps thou wilt return with a new prayer, to find a new window in they soul." George Macdonald

 

Help us to trust you

Help us to find you

Help us to listen to you