Truthfully...Do you believe in luck?

[My Own Eyes]

Originally Posted by Eliseus

I thought you were Mich! I just didn't want to put my foot in my mouth if I was wrong (which, as you well know, is extremely rare! lol)

Besides these here issues of cosmic importance, I hope you are doing well?

Somehow I am just not able to hide myself....the flippant sarcasm always seems to give me away

I wish I could say that I was doing well, actually I would settle for OK! It's been a rough year, but I am surviving, which when all is said in done is not too shabby.

Originally Posted by Eliseus

Do I understand you to be saying you were trying to understand God and people around you were pressuring you to just forget about all that and 'trust me' on it all?

They might not say that outright, it's usually in the form of..."now we see through a glass darkly..." or "you just have to faith.." "Or you don't have to trust or understand God to follow him...."

I understand that we are never going to understand everything, and I also get that at some point we have to cross the line into faith. But apparently where I draw the line is different than others. It's very important to me that I determine that God is good and trustworthy and worth following before I actually do so. Not to mention that I need to determine what is actually God, and what is mankinds perception of Him.

I used to think that once I got there, once I had the answers to those questions (a foundation), that then I would be ready to begin my spiritual journey. But I am coming to see that maybe the quest for those answers is the journey.