Tuesday, August 15, 2006
'You were fearfully and wonderfully made'
I think it's kind of funny I didn't start to think about origins until I hit about thirty-five years of age. Sure, I knew that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth, and that it was good. I even knew He knew me when He stitched me in my mother's womb. But until I reached my mid-thirties, I didn't consider 'where did it All really come from?' 'What is Fate?' 'Does my Life have a Purpose?'
There are many false roads, I believe one can be led down to answer these questions. There are many pop-psychology books that narrow your personhood down to 'types' that can tell you what line of work you're best suited for, what line of study you're best suited for, what type of mate you're best suited for, basically, everything you're best suited for, based on your answers to twenty four to fifty questions.
But Life, in my view, is too diverse, as is Personality, to be summed up by answering twenty four to fifty questions. Man is too complex an animal to be able to accurately describe how he views himself, let alone how others view him.
Then there are the Stars. I believe the Stars, the Moon and Sun included do effect man in some ways, but not to a considerable degree. One cannot deny the influence of the Moon in that it pulls the tides or the Sun in that it blows the winds. If they effect these phenomena, surely they effect us to a degree?
But aren't the Stars too concerned with their own Fates, in order to busy themselves too much with those Fates of man? For surely we have seen they have their own births and own deaths to worry themselves over. Do the Stars wonder what Stars they were born under?
I think it's kind of funny I didn't start to think about origins until I hit about thirty-five years of age. Sure, I knew that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth, and that it was good. I even knew He knew me when He stitched me in my mother's womb. But until I reached my mid-thirties, I didn't consider 'where did it All really come from?' 'What is Fate?' 'Does my Life have a Purpose?'
There are many false roads, I believe one can be led down to answer these questions. There are many pop-psychology books that narrow your personhood down to 'types' that can tell you what line of work you're best suited for, what line of study you're best suited for, what type of mate you're best suited for, basically, everything you're best suited for, based on your answers to twenty four to fifty questions.
But Life, in my view, is too diverse, as is Personality, to be summed up by answering twenty four to fifty questions. Man is too complex an animal to be able to accurately describe how he views himself, let alone how others view him.
Then there are the Stars. I believe the Stars, the Moon and Sun included do effect man in some ways, but not to a considerable degree. One cannot deny the influence of the Moon in that it pulls the tides or the Sun in that it blows the winds. If they effect these phenomena, surely they effect us to a degree?
But aren't the Stars too concerned with their own Fates, in order to busy themselves too much with those Fates of man? For surely we have seen they have their own births and own deaths to worry themselves over. Do the Stars wonder what Stars they were born under?
