Posted by Bookgurl99 on June 24, 2002, at 14:40:14
In reply to i really like your post » bookgurl99, posted by Krazy Kat on June 20, 2002, at 15:20:08
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> This absolutely fascinates me. I have wondered why, if God is around and active in our lives, we don't have prophets and visions any longer. Could it be that we have closed ourselves off to that sense?I have to be honest -- when I was a kid, I prayed not to see them anymore. And now I don't. I just couldn't handle it. I wonder if it was a developmental thing (the temporal lobe growing?) or 'real.'
Lately, with the suffering I'm going through, I wonder about the existence of God/ a higher power. For me, an angel I saw when I was young -- and a dream I had at age 10 where God told me that he (strange that it was a 'he,' no? culturally relevant) would always take care of me. That's what keeps me going so far.
Right now, for me, the existence of God or multiple lives, or some force behind the universe, is the only thing that makes me able to live and handle my own personal suffering and the suffering of the multitudes in the world.
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