Your view is just fine. That is what makes us human and which gives us the value of interaction and free choice.
I am not saying that I am right or your wrong.
I will say that God communicates with everyone at every moment, through the most powerful and effective way: experience. Some choose to listen, some choose not to. That is the free will in our life.
God is the voice of energy- speaking in the wind, the waves of the ocean, the beauty of a flower, the words of a song, a billboard. But to be able to hear the message is to be open and ready for anything at any given moment.
I see us as one, that i belong to everything in existance, and everything in existance belongs to me. Because we are all made up of the same thing.
Now, you may not see that way and that is fine. Yes, people fo see things differently. That is what keeps us going. We all learn more of who we are by the differences of others. I accept and value the differences between you and I.
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Also, I think often times that what some people do out of "love" is actually very detrimental towards that well-being of that individual and/or their self. Examples:
Enabling someone to do destructive activities such as drug abuse or skirting responsibilities towards others or their self. Attempting to make decisions for others because they don't see the "right decision" well enough on their own, so they need to be told what to do. Letting yourself get walked on emotionally by another because that is just "who they are", and they don't know any better. Etc etc.
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Yes, that is true. But explain how doing things out of Love is detremental? I am not saying that we are to tell others what to do. No, no. Each person has their own will to choose. It's their own life, their own path. But doing things such as telling them they care, and just being there for them, that is not harming the other person, but for some situations, doing things out of love is just showing them there are other options, but not that you would tell them what to do.
Now, what we can distinguish here, still is what Love is. What is Love to you? To me, I see love as grander- especially coming through situations in the past that were difficult. It is to distinguish it from the romantic-type love, filled with emotions, the limnited love in which you love someone unless they cheat, betray, or lie to you. In which, the love that you have been enveloped in is not love. It's fear. Fearing that they would hurt you. Love does not feel hurt. It does not know pain, it does not have limits or exceptions. It is unconditional.
And, of the story of Abraham- first of all, we must realize that that was a man-written story. Second of all, God would not wish to have killed a piece of Him, as killing someone is an action going against another's free will. If God does not interfere with our free will, He would not ask us to interfere with one anothers'. Killing is not a wise choice.
But that is where the human mind sets a block towards the reasons outside of it seeming just "wrong". We choose to assume that breaking someon's art piece as wrong, and not think otherwise of it. Not like I am out destroying other people's things. But if I had a great sense of the reason to do so, in which I would have the open mind to see the grand picture, then I would do so, even if it meant another being mad at me for a very long time.
Sweetie, you're walking your path, I am walking mine- but we have crossed paths for a reason. i won't deny or ignore that. Nor will I attempt to persuade you of anything. I respect you for seeing differently than me- I have learned a lot from you. Thank you.