Having abandoned this study for some time, a friend recently urged me to not give up. And I hadn't, I simply lost focus. But please don't assume said focus is regained, today I just felt like reading.
And what a chapter with which to resume. Ugh!!! Loads of good v. bad, which I find quite unpalatable. Why? Because I am human. I will never be good without my bad. Isn't that the human condition? The life-long battle with self? The struggle between recognizing what I should be doing and understanding that I'd rather just loaf and procrastinate and eat chocolate and rot in front of the television?
I have come to believe in a life-giving, all-loving Force, which NEVER abandons because it is a part of my biological make-up. (Biological? Yes, remember, the weight of the human body immediately after death is 21.3 grams LESS?) For my own sanity, I have to take this study with the proverbial grain of salt and attempt to see the underlying guidance within.
So Mark's 13th Chapter . . . not my fav. What the hell is meant by the 12th verse? "Taken away"? This simply speaks to my religious indoctrination that if I do "good," I'll be rewarded, but if I do "bad," I'll be punished. That's a load of crap!
What I understand to be true FOR ME is that every action I make comes with a consequence. Some consequences I enjoy. Others? Not so much. Could this be what the 16th verse is pointing toward?And what about the 15th? Is this an encouragement for individual interpretation? Individual understanding? (Gasp!) If so, that's pretty major stuff for this recovering catholic taught to follow the masses. Hell, that's pretty crazy stuff for our American culture (got your iPhone, yet?).
So I think I'll wander off the cow path a little further and continue to make this reading mine.
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