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How real is your life? - 10/21/2008 10:57:57 AM
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Luvinme
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Do you ever feel like you are living a surreal life? Sort of like when you watch a futuristic movie and you can see how things could be a certain way, but you are not quite there yet to experience it in the now? It is like I am standing watching life go by in it meaninglessness. A slogan on television today exclaims live life to its fullest as it is too short to waste. So for the secular, a statement like this makes a lot of sense since it is all about them and for them. But life is just a day to God and means nothing unless lived selflessly. I feel like I walk through a dreamland since this life is the one that is not real to me and so full of lies and dysfunction. Yet everyone around me seems to be so comfortable. No one seems to understand another way of looking at life, but like ants they just continue, but don't really know why except as long as they are indeed satisfied then they must have accomplished something. How boring.
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/21/2008 2:30:45 PM
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car2ner
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I guess I can be glad that I don't understand your other way of looking at life. I had a share of hard times and I know hard times can come again. I have had and still have my share of routine. I have had and will have my share of delights. Yet I do not feel like I am an ant doing nothing but spending my time here until I die. There are lies and dysfunction but God's goodness has shined thru often.
I guess the writer of Lamentations would understand your OP better. "...The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music, Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning."
Or Ecclesiastes..."Meaningless, Meaningless! says the teacher, everything is meaningless". So after mulling over the meaning of life he concludes this: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man."
I tend to lean more in this direction, "light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. However many years a man may live, let him enjoy them all. But let him remember the days of darkness for there will be many, everything to come is meaningless."
The Dawn Translation is, "don't take the blessing for granted. Might as well enjoy them because there will be times to cry if you enjoy your blessings or not."
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/21/2008 4:43:28 PM
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Luvinme
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Thanks for taking the time to try to understand me. Sometimes I wonder at myself too. It is not that I am depressed or anything. I am genuine about accepting my surroundings and my place in life and who I am. I know God has made me very sensitive to the things in this world. In some ways I feel confined since I don't have the opportunity to be connected on the same level with someone else. Christianity is a lonely place and I am understanding more and more why ignorance is blitz. As much as Christianity is a struggle for me, my biggest struggle is that no one knows me. Like Ecclesiastes I place all my trust in God and that has isolated me to some degree. You may say I should be more involved and it is impossible to not know another Christian, and it must be me. I am involved quite a lot actually, but deep, true friendship is a difficult thing to find.. and church for me, so far, has been mainly superficial and secular. At the same time, strangely, I do know joy, and perhaps even better and bigger than anyone else since I love God more than anything, even myself, and I will never loose that hope or let the world take it from me, and I will always understand the wonderful blessing of having God in my life. My place is with Him and I desire more. What else in this world do I have to be thankful for? God is the answer to everything and everything to be thankful for. I hope one day God will give me a companion to connect with. For now this site helps much with my many woes and contemplations.
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/22/2008 2:08:37 PM
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car2ner
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It would surprise many folks to find out how many others feel alone in a crowd, even a crowd of folks they know. I think it is very common to have only a handful of truly close friends.
Sometimes I think that even on the most blissful days there is just something missing... I tend to think that is because we are not in heaven. Everything here is somehow touched by sin. I like to imagine just how much better the best peach, juicy and sweet on earth and yet somehow missing something, would taste in heaven. How the most lovely colors are just somehow short of perfect, yet there may very well be colors we have never seen in heaven. How the most delightful music just misses the mark of what it will sound like in heaven. How our relationships, no matter how close, are never quite all that they could be, no matter how we try. But when we get home, we have forever to share with our friends/ family and the Lord.
In that respect, even though this life is real, it is just shy of being truly real.
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/22/2008 8:50:03 PM
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Luvinme
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I agree. I just always want more.
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/24/2008 3:03:39 AM
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How real is your life?
This is a very good question. Did you mean my life in the real world compared to the chat room? I guess everyone single one of us can talk the talk on the forums but when it actually comes down to walking the walk, we each have our own distinct struggles. So how real is my Christian life? I really hope that it is indeed real, but I will leave that up to the Lord to decide. Thanks for bringing it up, it is a great topic that should lead to a humble discussion.
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/24/2008 8:19:49 AM
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Did you mean my life in the real world compared to the chat room?
This is an interesting comparison. The discussion in a chat room is often a sad comparison to a real face to face conversation. The words can be the same but the tone and body language are missing. Imagine someone who had been secluded their entire life and could only discuss things in text. They would not even realize that there is a fuller way to discuss things. Yet they may somehow know that something is missing, but not know what it is.
That may be a bit like life here, and life in heaven.
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/27/2008 10:51:02 PM
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Luvinme
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I guess it is easier for us to be more ourselves in chat. I wish we could be this open and honest when we are actually with people, but I am afraid that it seems an open discussion takes time to develop and people don't really like to challenge thought too much in a basic conversation or in a new relationship I find. Conversation is generally bland and typical like how's the weather and how's work type questions. Even after you get to know them awhile it seems most people are still stand-offish afraid to say what they really want - why is that anyway? Especially if we are all Christians, are we not suppose to be real and accept each other as we come?
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/28/2008 1:50:41 PM
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Did you mean my life in the real world compared to the chat room?
There's life outside of chat rooms? LOL.
I post a lot in forums, but spend little time on them.
I don't go to chat rooms anymore. Gettin' too old I guess. lol.
Since I was 13 I have had bouts of really knowing if I truly "exist" or not.
That was from some spiritual experiences I have had from 5 -13.
Many things make an impact on our lives in the early years for the rest of our lives.
As for Ecclesiastes, that was my biography.
Not the wealth, but the viewpoint of life.
Still is to a point. No matter what, we all end up in the grave. lol.
I ran a very good verse that spoke to me.
I didn't write it down, and I can't find it because it wasn't KJ.
But, as I reread the NT again I will run across it.
The verse said, "We are to enjoy Him."
That's the purpose of our life in a nutshell. To enjoy God.
I do that every morning for two or three hours before I begin my day.
So, how real is my life?
Well, beam me up Scotty! lol.
< Message edited by Lapidoth -- 10/28/2008 2:06:37 PM >
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RE: How real is your life? - 10/28/2008 3:44:28 PM
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car2ner
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Conversation is generally bland and typical like how's the weather and how's work type questions. Even after you get to know them awhile it seems most people are still stand-offish afraid to say what they really want - why is that anyway? Especially if we are all Christians, are we not suppose to be real and accept each other as we come?
I feel your frustration. We have moved and miss our friends that we can have real, interesting and challenging conversations. We really don't like polite chuchess talk.
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