Q and A

When do we recognise when He does draw a line besides a natural disaster? Point being, when in our daily lives are we supposed to let go and have some common sense and show it through our faith in the day-to-day crazy mela-drama of it all? When do we get desperate and see Divine intervention in a common green light or when do we go crazy in vanity by posting online, "My Girlfriend left me"?
How do we show some sense of inner peace when confronted with it all at work or in the grocery store in a mature fashion besides blowing it off because you think the other person is ignorant and when do you stand up without throwing a bible? Thank-you for your response.
Karen


I think one of the most valuable "things" I have in my life are good friends whom I trust, who ground me when i am caught in a rainbow swirl of existential questions.

When in the midst of situations, most people can lose sight of "reality" and "perception" becomes the reality -also known as "getting caught up in the moment." Christ is also a grounding force -the ubiquitous "WWJD" which makes me personally crazy, has a point -in a given situation, we are called to step out of ourselves and look through God's eyes.

You can't show inner peace until you have inner peace... and there are thousands of books out there with get-peaceful-quick schemes.

I am reminded of my time in a convent -when one is removed from one's normal reality, and has no grounding, one's sense of reality is skewed -so one tolerates horrid behaviors or poor choices or hurtful situations, because one forgets that elsewhere, life is conducted differently.

Most things we juxtapose are not in reality opposites -just shorthand for the experience -cold is not the opposite of hot -cold is the absence of heat -evil is not the opposite of good -evil is the absence of good- and insane is not the opposite of sane -insane is the absence of sane.

What I think of as "crazy", is really just a quirky approach or unusual life view. I like my "crazy" friends -the artists, the engineers, the accountants-by-day-bellydancers-by-night. Insanity (not referring to true mental illness here, that is a medical condition) is the absence of sanity -the absence of heat, good, God.

We all need grounding.

My friends describe me as a free spirit, but if not for them, I'd be floating off into space instead of blissfully following the flowers.

Thanks for your question!
Anne