There Is So Much In This Life That Doesn't Make Sense

I had gone down to check on my wash just a little while ago and I saw an UB on the display and my wash had stopped, so I thought to myself what could this possibly mean, so I looked at the acronym on the display and figured out that it was unbalanced. I had tried to wash two blankets and two small throw pillows. I thought, I've put enormous loads in the high capacity washer before and not once did the washer become unbalanced. It just didn't make sense to me. So I proceeded to take the two sopping wet throw pillows out of the center and put them in the sink -- I figured I would dry those out separately after the two blankets spun though the spin cycle to pull all the water out of them. I had to spread the blankets out evenly throughout the washer bin in order to get the drum from spinning unevenly. This whole process made no sense to me at all. I wondered to myself how all my high capacity loads had gone through the process. Maybe because the clothes were smaller in size and could move around more freely.

Then my Apple Watched buzzed and I looked down to see what message I had gotten. It was from my Harvest Discipleship Application and it was asking us members how prophecy is made to prepare us not scare us. I didn't read the entire question, because I would need to open my phone, but I believe it asked how prophecy will prepare me. Then my brain went into full throttle thinking about being prepared for what is ahead. I've written in previous blogs my belief in the Rapture when Christians will be removed from the earth before the period of antichrist and tribulation begins. So my mind went to how Pastor Greg talked about how Phillip baptized an Ethiopian Eunuch and then Phillip was raptured sideways into another location from where he had just baptized the Eunuch. The day Pastor Greg mentioned a sideways rapture all I could think of was the sensation that must have had on Phillip. I mean, I think at one time or another we have all experienced a roller coaster and the pull of force that goes through our body as we are tossed all about into different directions, etc. Or better yet that ride where it spins so fast, it sucks you into the walls (centripetal force) -- that sensation. So here is where my brain started working, I thought to myself prophecy and being prepared. I guess if we didn't study prophecy in the Bible, we wouldn't know that one day, we might experience the Rapture -- the great being caught up to meet our Savior in heaven. Then I started thinking how can one prepare themselves for something that hasn't happened yet. I started thinking maybe all those rides I took fearlessly in my youth was preparing me for that sensation. Because when I think actually about the event -- it seems a bit overwhelming. I guess because my brain capacity is so small, the whole process doesn't make sense. There is more about prophecy beyond just the Rapture.

I mean one of our greatest questions that all of us have wondered in our lifetime is why do I exist? There are so many, many theories and philosophies that many of us have been exposed to and because we have been given free choice (another phenomenon when you think about it "free choice") we can choose and accept what seems the most logical. Then we have a word Faith -- in a hope in something or someone that we haven't seen or have evidence to prove as absolute.

But there is so much more about this life that doesn't make sense. I mean, why do we dream? Why do we go to sleep at night and have dreams? Sometimes you can tell that it is something in your subconscious that you are dreaming of something you may have experienced or want to experience. But I have to tell you -- sometimes depending on what kind of medication or food I consume -- dreams can be pretty darn bizarre!! On top of these dreams, I've actually had dreams of things that happened in my future after dreaming of them years before. Do you remember when we were told that we don't dream in color? I knew that was myth, because my dreams are very colorful.

I was watching a documentary the other day with Bryant Gumbel about miracles and unexplained things that different people have experienced in their lives. Things that don't make sense at all. Some saw what they could only describe as angels. Others experienced healings that were miraculous. I shared in a previous blog how I was crossing a street and was hit by a motorcycle who didn't see me, however, I didn't fall to the ground, I didn't feel pain -- it was just a weird sensation. The motorcyclist even looked back, because he realized he felt something and hadn't seen me. He just saw me standing there wide eyed and asked me if I was okay. I responded yes. And he watched me walk across to the other side and then he took off on his motorcycle when he saw I was okay. At this point, I knew about God and had attributed it to a guardian angel or supernatural power that intervened to protect me from disaster or death. But do I have any proof? Only the fact that I was there and am alive today to tell you about it.

And have you ever thought about how trusting we are to believe in something that someone has researched and tells us it is that way, because they studied it and can substantiate their hypothesis to a certain level -- and then we just accept it as is? But then when someone speaks to us about religion or philosophy, we want 100% absolute proof or it just isn't -- or so we have been told there is no logical way anything can be true about it.

How about at some point in your childhood you always thought that everything in life was supposed to be fair and then when our little brains grow a little more developed, we are told life is not fair and who told us it was? We must have gotten the idea that life was fair from someone.

You know what blows me away in this life? Prodigies. These little children or toddlers who are so incredibly gifted beyond anyone's understanding. They wake up and sit at a piano or other complicated instrument and are able to play it like they have played it for years without any training. Or an artist who picked up a paint brush and paints like a trained or better than a trained master artist. The children who can recite and learn the most detailed things and do it to perfection. I always ask myself are these children who have more than a 10th of the use of their brains. To me, most celebrities also have some amazing thing happening with them that a whole world falls in love with their music, their art or quite frankly just them as a person. What is that spark?

The Law of Attraction? What? You can manifest your own destiny through the energy you exert and put into what you want to achieve. What a fascinating concept. If it could be that easy.

Why is there so much imbalance in socio-economics? Why are there so many differences in cultures when we are born into a demographic environment just merely by being born?  Some people have said that where and when you are born will determine the opportunities you will be offered in life and in turn establish a precedent to what you may or may not accomplish. Since we have free choice, why do some people accept that as being what is intended for them?

Why do we have different levels of education or none at all? I guess it all goes back to life not being fair.

And this is what is in my braincells for today -- actually, the thoughts frequently change and that's why I'm attempting to tame my thoughts. You've heard of centering? I am able to reestablish my center and my balance by going back to the one thing that always makes sense to me and that is my faith in Christianity. Christianity is my one consistent. The one truth of the Bible that resonates with me and is written that we do live in a world that doesn't make sense for the most part, but we can believe in a Creator (peace of God) that surpasses all understanding Philippians 4:7 -- and that is what gives me hope in order to continue my journey on this earth for however long I will be here.