I Work in Mysterious Ways
I am a photographer. I was supposed to get some overdue darkroom work completed yesterday, but instead spent the afternoon catching up on my online blog reading. When my wife got in last night, I was relaxing on the couch channel surfing through all the horrible television choices. She asked if I had gotten a lot of work done. I told her that I did not get any work done whatsoever. She asked why. I thought about it and explained,
I work in mysterious ways.
She took the remote control from me and walked away.
How is it that this excuse works so easily for 'God', but not for the rest of us?
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8 Comments:
I'm going to try that excuse and see if it works for me. hahaha
Nice!
Christers work in mysterious ways also...or perhaps in not so mysterious ways.
Here is a little test. Get some church or church affiliated outfit to sponsor a "road side clean up." A la, this road is kept clean by the Little Sisters of the Hopelessly lost or whoever. The city or county will put up a sign to that effect for the group.
Now get a few atheists together and have them sponsor a road or street nearby. Do this on the up and up.
You will then see the "loving" attitude of the Xers in about a week's time. They will, to use god's words, utterly destroy, the sign of the atheists.
I've seen this done time and time again.
Don't it make you proud?
The Beast works in mysterious ways too.
I walked into the office, ignore everything and everyone else around me, switch on my computer and grunts a swear word or two.
Hmm, come to think of it, its more morbid than mysterious.
Jokingly
The Beast
I'll take a crack at your question if you tell me your definition of 'mystery'
Seth
Crack away Seth. The definition isn't mine, it's what believers say when the actions of 'God' don't make any sense
Part 1
i guess i agree and disagree with that definition. Mystery is something that has not been revealed fully to us. For instance: God even when we get to heaven, will still be in some way a mystery to us. We will be fulfilled to the very core of our exsistence and totally united in his infinite love but know all there is to know about Him, No. He is infinitley simple and infinitly unfathomable. Kind of like (cheezy as this analogy may be), a gallery of art that never ends or begins.
But I dont think that a mystery is something that just "doesnt make sense." i guess we could replace "doesn't make sense" with inconcievable.
The Trinity is a Mystery but it makes sense. (you wince) It doesn't make sense the first time or two around, but neither did the quadratic formula the first time I studied it. or Relativity, and honestly I still cant totally comprehend the theory of Relativity even though i can make sense of it. The greatest mystery of my life is why the h-e-double hockeysticks my wife said yes.
Mystery is a beautiful thing. As proust put it. "there is no excelent beauty without some strangeness in proportion"
I guess in short some things can be unimaginable not-yet-revealed but not inconceivable "make sense" -these things i would call a mystery.
seth
Hehe... I wonder if I could do the same. I think it was rather cool, what she did, but maybe it's just because I am female. :)
I was wondering, how come you have a "Support Denmark" banner, are you Danish or of Danish heritage?
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