[Faith-talk] two things

[Brandon Olivares]

I disagree with this.

Of course, I’m not Christian, and I believe that we all are God. There’s no one in this universe we have to subject ourselves to. We were given the power of creation, but most people don’t know how or are too afraid to use it.

I’ve created many things in my own life, and I never defer to someone else’s will. You get to decide what you want to experience.

It’s obviously more complicated than that, but I’ve proven it to myself enough to know the truthfulness of it.

Brandon
> On Aug 25, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Sandra Streeter via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi, everyone,
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> First: I wondered if those who want to respond with their “top Ten” picks could list them vertically, as I did—it would make reading with a screen reader easier.
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> Also: There are those who claim that saying “Your will be done” is wrong, that it somehow demonstrates a lack of faith in the pray-er. I disagree: I think that praying in any other way is presuming on God, at worst, and at best, very childish, like approaching a parent and jumping up and down screaming for something and acting entitled. Of course, those same people are likely to say, “Well, we’re the King’s kids,” and I still feel disconcerted by that line of thinking/behaving! I am very much of the “thy will be done” school, because it demonstrates humility and a trust that, whatever happens, God works the outcome to His purposes for those who love Him and are called to His purposes. There’s a very intense but fascinating book by Sheldon van Auken, “A Severe Mercy,” that deals with prayer that is not answered according to our wishes. BTW, for other bigtime C.S. Lewis readers like me out there, van Auken knew C.S. Lewis, and gave some really great accounts of their friendship in that book, as well.
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> Sandra
> "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
> The Little Prince 
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