Only the beginning...
Hey Friends,
This is a blog for conversations about life, culture and Christ (in no particular order). Feel free to use this as a place to vent, muse, discuss, and/or dream in the community of friends. Through it all, let us more completely become the body of Christ. Enjoy.
To quote (with a few changes) from the movie from which this blog gets its name:
"We don't read and write [about theology] because it's cute. We read and write [about theology] because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
And to quote Christ, the reason why we even have this blog:
"I have come that they might have life, and have it to the fullest."
Listen. Learn. Love. Serve.
David
This is a blog for conversations about life, culture and Christ (in no particular order). Feel free to use this as a place to vent, muse, discuss, and/or dream in the community of friends. Through it all, let us more completely become the body of Christ. Enjoy.
To quote (with a few changes) from the movie from which this blog gets its name:
"We don't read and write [about theology] because it's cute. We read and write [about theology] because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
And to quote Christ, the reason why we even have this blog:
"I have come that they might have life, and have it to the fullest."
Listen. Learn. Love. Serve.
David
posted by David at
7:56 PM
2 Comments:
It is a disorientation of the proper ordering of such pursuits that causes confusion. My new job in medicine causes me to frequently reflect on the beauty in life. We get so bogged down in these pursuits... they become the endless trains of the faithless. Nowhere are such endless trains of the faithless more apparent than in medicine. The beauty doesn't hit you until you're standing at the bedside of an elderly woman, hand-in-hand with the family.
Its difficult to reorient to the vitality of beauty, romance, love, etc. I think being a prophet might have a bit to do with this foreign ideology. It is foreign in practice but rings so true in the hearts of the human race. We seek this "kind" of life. I think it directs us to the abundant life Christ came to direct us toward.
Copy this as a post Richard it is a good thought that we all should look at given that we all will be faced with choices about medical procedures and death.
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