Our friend Brian asks: How does this song make you feel? I think it does a great job of capturing the irony. Here are the words
Dear God,
Hope you got the letter and
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet
‘Cause they don’t get enough to eat From God
I can’t believe in you.
Dear God,
Sorry to disturb you, but
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
We all need a big reduction in the amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image,
See them fighting in the street
‘Cause they can’t make opinions meet
About God,
I can’t believe in you.
Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too?!
Dear God,
Don’t know if you noticed, but…
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book,
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
And all the people that you made in your image,
Still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain’t, and so do you
Dear God,
I can’t believe in…
I don’t believe in…
I DON’T believe in heaven OR hell.
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You’re always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
IT’S ALL the same the whole world ’round.
The hurt I see helps to compound
The Father, The Son and Holy Ghost
Is just somebody’s unholy hoax
And if you’re up there you’d perceive
That my heart’s here upon my sleeve.
If there’s one thing I don’t believe in…..
There are many great things for us to ponder on and grow from each other’s insights. This site (BoldGrace) is really all about being a place where people can come (hopefully free of hostility) and share where they are currently at in this great journey we call LIFE.
From time to time I like to remind those who visit here that this site is NOT ABOUT AGREEMENT because in my almost 57 years I have never seen any group of people (or even two people) who agree on everything. Sue emailed me recently and reminded me of something her & I had discussed and thought it would make a good topic for conversation. so here it is:
WHY DO WE ALL THINK SO DIFFERENTLY?
Is it possible that our creator fully intended as part of our creation to make us see things differently so that in that great contrast of thought we just might see our oneness?
Of course, the secret to my personal peace is that I’ve never minded EVERYONE ELSE BEING WRONG!!!!!!
Recently Marco gave us an interesting quote to ponder:
“If God is God then God is not good, if God is good then God is not God”
If I’m not wrong this is a favorite quote of many an atheist. That being said, I am not an atheist and yet I think this quote has much to learn from.
Let me start with the first part: "IF GOD IS GOD THEN GOD IS NOT GOOD." First, let me say that only a person partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good & evil would describe God as GOOD. God is neither good nor evil. As I have said before I only use the term "God" because I know it is the term most relate to and it is what I grew up with. The word GOOD is a only a word that can not possibly describe what God is. God is so beyond what we can even imagine and because of our limited abilities in this physical state we end up using words to describe an energy that can not be described by human words. And so I have in the past called God "God", and even a God who is Good but I fully realize that my description of our creator is completely inadequate and spoiled by my own limits to communicate.
Secondly. "IF GOD IS GOOD, GOD IS NOT GOD". If I look at a rainbow and say "That’s nice", what I’m saying is true but it wouldn’t begin to describe the beauty and complicated nature of a rainbow. That may be a poor example but it works for me. If I say God is Good that doesn’t begin to truly describe the energy behind our creator and yet the simplicity of my words may still be true and God is still God.
The best minds of the human race that have ever lived have asked these same questions about God and they are still asking. For me I still like the following answer in describing God:
Ex 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
What a profound statement, I AM THAT I AM. There are things we are just not equipped to fathom on this earth, but I’m glad that the I AM, GOD, FATHER, OR WHATEVER OTHER TERM YOU WISH TO USE has given each of us such inquisitive minds to search Him out.
I’m also glad for all those who come here with open minds willing to learn even when that learning may go against everything we thought yesterday.
