Recently I was dazzled by the images from the National Science Foundation that captured millions of distant stars and galaxies and revealed thousands of previously unseen asteroids. I love when science catches up with the mystery of God’s beauty and gives us a taste of the omnipotence and grandeur. We are seeing the mystery revealed in the Milky Way.
Month Five. Fortitude to love myself, expands my hope and kindness
It takes a lot of fortitude to love myself the way God loves me. As humans, we are filled with irrationality and contradiction and are never predictable. Our past behavior tells us more than anything about how we may behave in the future, but we are prone to self-defeating patterns of behavior rather than remembering and dealing with the underlying conflict associated with them. We are victims of self-deception. We sacrifice our health to make money, then sacrifice money to recuperate our health. We are anxious about the future so that we don’t live in the present. We live as if we aren’t going to die and then we die not having fully lived. All this is to say, as humans we are a mystery.