How to Think Like a Human
Poster photo courtesy of Richard Bryant
- Today is a gift. Today is not tomorrow. Use today to make tomorrow better.
- Love is a self-generating gift from the Cosmos. We do not create love. Love is a byproduct of the universe itself.
- Humanity cannot destroy what continually wants to be recreated. Love will rear its head behind barbed wire in bombed-out cities, where families are shattered, and life will not let go.
- The ability to love others rests in two places: in your heart and your hands. We make a conscious choice to care about someone or something. Will we act, with our lives, on the choices we've made?
- Anxiety and fear can be turned into the kindling which fuels our desire to serve others instead of crippling our willingness to love our neighbors.
- The greatest enemy of religious faith, an expansive faith that embraces God's reality in the present, a God working in the here and now, is a religious faith that demands adherents deny reason, common sense, and human experience.
- When asked to deny reason, common sense, and human experience, we will eventually be asked to stop loving others.
- Theology, our experience of God, causes us to engage with the traumas of our world and our lives. If we're not engaging with trauma, we're not having an authentic engagement with God.
- We can find a place where we can understand joy and happiness despite (and in light of) our suffering.