A few years ago I decided to certify in the Microsoft Windows Server 2000 products and spent 8 months studying many volumes all about this product. Many times I would experience an inner thrill as the lights switched on in my mind as I realised what they were on about and how a particular component actually worked.
It’s a great feeling. The joy of learning and discovery. The delight that comes with understanding.
It’s the same feeling David had as he studied the Hebrew law and delighted in learning and discovering its wisdom and its message for him.
The past year I have been reading and re-reading (and re-reading!) the three books of the trilogy “Conversations With God” and almost every time I read I feel a delicious welling-up of joy as my soul and mind respond to its simple message. While I don’t agree with every word that is written in its pages, I love the overall message of the book and I embrace it as my own. It has become a “lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” and I am grateful that this message has been given to mankind at this time.
March 2, 2009 at 5:39 pm |
Ahh.. heres the post where you describe your transition. I grew up Mormon and felt a huge attachment to the religion due to the teachings. I knew in my heart that there was something more going on in this world and I thought being Mormon was the missing link sort of.
I remember bringing missionaries in my house and home teachers and really getting into deep doctrine and them telling me that I shouldn’t question things as it was disrespectful to God. I always thought to myself that God was freaking “God”… how do you offend him/her?
I was in Charleston at work one day and I used to have some really heated but respectful theological debates with a Baptist at work. One day I was bored and perused Apple Trailers and saw the trailer for the CwG movie. I was like who’s this quack and whats he talking about. I went to wikipedia to research CwG then went to my usenet site and searched CwG. To my suprise the audio (mp3) of all three books were on there and I queued them up for download. I finally listened to the CD on the way to drill that month and was ready to throw it out if it was “bullshit” I was hearing.
All I remember was getting on the road to drill (3 hours away) and arriving there and shutting off the car. I do not remember the drive. I immediately turned to car back on because the CD player went off. I was immersed and needed more. I listened and listened and ended up buying the books and reading them. I immediately knew that the God of this book was the God I had searched for my whole life. It was like I knew it was out there and was calling it to me but it took 20+ years to find me.
What’s so great is that the God of CwG allows all the science and astronomy to exist while sitting back and absorbing the experience of it all around the universe without intervention. It’s perfect. It makes sense. It brings science and religion together into what we all know inside is what we call “God”. I love my God so much now because I know that I am my God in my own little insignificant part of the whole!