@BlondB00 God desires to know if you'll stay true to Him, no matter what. Temptations and demons, negativity and evil, tragedy and despair, loss, and generally, as you said, suffering, are all trials to show God you are faithful enough to remain in His presence and good grace.
@BlondB00 Absolute surrender to God means that you as a you no longer give a shit if you live or die; what matters is doing the will of God, which is what life is supposed to be anyways. (I guess that's kind of a paradox.)
@BlondB00 The farther you go into the angelic and the closer you get to God and the more your consciousness focuses on going deep into its soul and spirit, the less and less earthly or secular you become. Individual survival is problematic at best. It's the last to go: self-preservation.
@rebeccagrants I had a strong feeling when they drafted him that Walker would be a beast up the middle. The sky is the limit for this kid. He's a monster out there. Interior lineman are going to have nightmares before and after they play him for years to come!
@Mike_Bundt You can't survive and win in a small market without great goaltending. It really begins there. I think of how many games Hasek singlehandedly one for us, it's crazy this hasn't been the sabres blueprint for success since.
@BlondB00 Hi, Blond. It's been a while. Just wondering who you think might be the whiniest philosopher of all time? Imo it was probably Nietzsche, as he complains albeit criticizes almost incessantly. And, I love his work!
God's lovers have always been the bleeding ones, on the road with no clear destination. not the pretty polished pious saints but the ones with dirt under their nails and madness in their eyes, the ones you would cross the street to avoid because their storm was too loud for your liking. these are the ones who will praise until their tongues rot from disuse, praise was made for the dark road, the broken body and the heart that wants to know why but doesnt yet. the ones who have already arrived cant praise, not really. they can recite, but praise is the domain of the baffled and lost, the ones who crawl because they cant walk and speak in tongues because their cognitive mind is broken, who fight with the angel all night and ask to be blessed even when they are dislocated, the ones who grab blessings by force while God wrestles them to the ground
@CarolineKautsi1 I have an old manuscript I did years ago about 3 basic categories of meditation: MOE, MON, MOS. The ladder is the one you're referring to, while one focuses on emptiness and the other focuses on unity with All.
@Pierre_Kingpin Bills O is really that good, especially if they can stay relatively healthy. They now have 3 or 4 good receivers, not great but good, who, with Allen as qb1, become almost unstoppable, as someone is almost always bound to get open enough