There is a certain kind of person, very common in life, who is most likely a saved soul and child of God, but missed out on a good church upbringing and proper teaching.  So they have a shameful lack of christianity reflected in their choices, behavior, and even deepest heart musings.  Their whole existence could be a thorny path of suffering and shallow unfulfillment. Honestly all of the horrible results of missing virtue could be listed for many pages. I just want to say that there is a sadness and loss involved that warrants some compassion, and their missing cross can ironically become exactly the main cross they carry in life. I'm even going to have to call it glorious in some cases, and guess that we are told not to judge because we don't know what we have forfeited, either.

 Hello everyone, here is another worldly monk post idea that isn't as good but still kind of interesting. 

It has to do with God not owing us anything. Having some understanding of that is really helpful, and I mention something like it in my next post. But I want to kind of contradict myself and say that it is really part of his goodness that he loves us and provides for us. So to think that maybe it wouldn't be good if he didn't love you might actually have some truth to it.

I'm just discussing the idea of obligation.  No one is in charge of him but it is part of his holy character that he works with all of us in whatever way he does.  So I just think you can reverse logic some of it to think that of course he loves you.  Why? Because he is good. And why wouldn't he love you? I mean that is actually post christian status because actually everyone does have reason to be cast away. But I am going to have to say that he wouldn't be the same without us.

This can be warped into socialism, but the problems that socialism tries and fails to address are also related to what people are and aren't owed, as compared to how righteous people are in fact supposed to treat each other. I don't subscribe to just saying all the basic needs are human rights.  But God did say to feed the hungry and take care of the poor.  And once he says that, there is an obligation factor and a responsibility that could certainly count as a form of being "owed."

Ok, to revisit the first section. If God doesn't love someone, he is still right.  And if he does love someone, he is right.  So if he didn't love that person that he does love, then wouldn't that be wrong? That is what I am saying and I forgot a good line.  And if people say this is a word game I will say that it has to do with things being the way they are beyond labels.

 Hello everyone, I am going to try to be more formal with this Worldly Monk post because I think it is kind of a good topic: It is about how people sometimes say, "When people make plans, God laughs."

It is similar to a concept in the bible and a verse that says, "A man's heart plans its way, but the lord directs his steps." Also, there is a verse that says "Delight yourself in the lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." And one more, "All things work together for the good of those who love Christ Jesus and are called according to his purpose."

So these verses present a very amazing blessing for people who God has no obligation to care about, and yet it is very thoughtful of him to make every aspect of history, space, and time work in your favor.  And for God to vigilantly pay attention to your whole life and guide your steps is actually a very nice comfort.

So I have to say that the saying people quote a lot about him laughing at our plans comes across to me as a little ungrateful, kind of discouraging, and frankly rather disrespectful. I feel that it portrays him as a scoffer when really he has had mercy on us for being that way and helps things work out after all.

I mean honestly to me, it is worse than just a distortion.  It is really the opposite of what is actually true about how he cares. It makes it sound like he mocks our dreams when really he has included everyone in a very considerate and loving plan. 

However, I think people mean well when they say it, and the thing about a joke is that it can convey the opposite thing that it states.  So I don't mean to judge, and obviously I have my foibles and enjoy some entertaining sacrilege very often. It simply was one of the desires of my heart to carry a cross of crossing the lines of religious humor.

 Hello everyone, guess what, I have another worldly monk post.

I am going to start with the origin of this post. I needed to mix a sauce. I did not have a dish for it. So I used the rice pudding cup from what I ate earlier. It was just right. So then I prayed for everyone who did something similar, mildly innovative but not that big of a deal, to get a certificate some day, maybe together at an event in heaven.  And then to make it worthwhile, we all are eligible for cool jobs or something.  And then add the people who also did something like not waste a plastic spoon like what I used for something else.  So you can see the cheesiness of it, and yet doesn't everyone want their halfway creative deed to be recognized and rewarded.

So then I think, is eligibility for a job enough in heaven.  Don't we want salvation anyway coupons for people in purgatory or hell.  Like we find out that 80 thousand people have a way out.

So that is my catholicism but I am going to have to just add the actual topic for this post, which is this: Is there something beyond eternity. Can we say "Beyond eternity." I think some people will immediately claim that it is definitional and once you name eternity, then "Beyond eternity," is also eternity.  But I think I am on to something which is that there are things we can't fathom. And possibly even when Jesus himself talks about eternal life and eternal punishment.  I mean it couldn't be more clear.  And yet aren't we all taught that God is beyond comprehension.  And his ways are higher than our ways.  So I feel like you have to upgrade some meaning.  So we have temporary, permanent, eternal, and then beyond eternal? And then infinite beyonds? And then something else that we don't know. 

Mainly I think that these topics aren't as liberal as people might think. I don't just want to be a unitarian or something. I just am not one of those people. But I will be a catholic about it. I mean Catholics simply pray for the dead, and ever since I heard about that in my english class sophomore year, I have absolutely thought, of course.  I just feel that it opens up a hopeful outlook where not everything is about our middle school church camp.  

So okay. Another verse is where it says no eye has seen what God has prepared for those who love him etc. I mean I obviously believe in hell.  The same might be said for that! What is in store for those who hate him and his people! How horrible! And maybe people would be interested in that justice system. And then any philosophical teen would have to say, I wonder if the locations are mixed together.  And then what do we have right in front of us.  Life on Earth, with a lot of variety each day in each way.

 Hello everyone, I have another worldly monk post idea.  Ok.  Eventually presybterians realize that the righteousness is found in christ.  A lot of christians figure this out or are told properly.

So here is my question.  You know that verse that says "delight yourself in the lord and he will give you the desires of your heart?"  Well is that righetousness also from christ.  Like does he delight himself in the lord and give you the desires, and if so, is it the desires of his heart or your heart?

Or is the idea that they would be the same.  I am just wondering because I just got excused from a trip to California and in my heart I did not want to make the trip but I did want to be at the conference.  So I mean who knows.  And then if you start thinking about it, wow I did not want to be harrassed a million times from mean people in my life.  or did I?  Is that a picture of a suffering servant that I did want.  And does it lend itself to humor later on in a way that was practically imagined by me? And yet it wasn't imagined by me ahead of time. I don't think it was.  Not in that new age way that some people think.

So anyway, that is interesting. It's not that big of a deal but it makes me feel safer because if you think it is the desires of your heart you start trying to guess what is best and wish the best things for yourself and you don't know. I mean think of it. Think of social media which we did not even know would exist in our teen years.  

Anyway, speaking of desires of your heart. I think I don't have inspection today. But I am going to try to mop the floor.  Pals a staff person is downstairs and she is kind of new and it is not easy. I do not take it for granted.  But it is a good job that she has and it will help her later in life to have done well for people.

But still it is not easy and I do have it kind of easy but wow this heat wave is driving me crazy.