9 days later.

I was going to stop blogging all together. It just seemed like a lot of extra effort.

The last 24 hours has challenged my idea however that sharing deep and personal thoughts in a public forum is a waste of time. Why the change of heart? Yesterday I met for lunch with some really wonderful people, who had VERY different beliefs than myself. Of course we had similarities, we all are living life as best as we can, loving and caring for the world as best as we know how. We all had in common the desire to be loved, to help others. We all feel pain, anger etc. I learned a lot about the world from them, and I had a wonderful time discussing life.

Essentially (stating the obvious) we are all sacred and precious humans in the eyes of God.

What if there is no God my atheist friends will ask? Well then our value we place on human life is simply what social conventions, or DNA or some other naturalistic/automatic factors compels us to feel or believe (but THAT is a whole other discussion we will discuss later).

Back to the point, whether you believe in God or not, I hope you believe that all human life is equal and of enormous, immeasurable value. I think we would all like to say that we believe that, but I question whether our lives demonstrate that. You find out what you really believe when you look at where you spend the most money, time and attention. Ponder that please.

This is my last point in this post.

I have no new ideas. Everything I know, I learned from someone else, or else God showed me. (NO he did not tell me there is a spaceship behind the moon...it's a horse and buggy! jk).

So my reason for blogging and sharing my deep thoughts, risking mockery and ridicule...probably the most from a certain childhood friend who lives in water (inside joke).

My reason for blogging, is that I am starting to care about the people I know. The more I search for the truth, and the closer I get to understanding God and who I am to him, the more my heart changes...and the more important everyone else in the world becomes.

I think all of us, myself included, need to always be sharing what we think is important in life, what is harmful, what is beneficial. Because when it comes right down to it, can any of us deny that some ways of living life are better than others?! Yes I did make a absolute statement! Someways of living ARE BETTER than others. So we should be talking about that. What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of life? What is the best way to live life? What is the Truth about life?