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March
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Today's
Quotation:
I believe that in our
constant search for security we can never
gain any peace
of mind until we secure our own soul. And this
I do
believe above all, especially in my times of greatest
discouragement, that I must believe--that I must believe
in my fellow people-- that I must believe in myself--that I
must believe in God--if life is to have any meaning.
Margaret
Chase Smith
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Today's
Meditation:
It's
a shame that so many people have attached so much dogma and
so many conditions to believing in God. We've turned
one of the most important aspects of our lives into some
sort of competition--you're not a true Christian unless you
believe this; you're not a good Moslem unless you adopt this
set of beliefs; a good Jew always will believe this.
But
what of our own relationships with ourselves and with
God? What of our own ability to believe in who we are
and who God is? Is it any wonder that we find it hard
to believe in ourselves when we're told so often that our
most basic beliefs are wrong or misguided? How can it
help us to adopt other people's beliefs just because other
people believe those things?
For
centuries, Christians believed that it was right to kill a
person who committed blasphemy. Some cultures still do
believe that. But for the most part, that belief has
changed significantly. What once was considered a holy
duty before God is now a crime in almost all countries of
the world. But how many people adopted that belief in
former times simply because other people told them it was
true?
If
we insist on adopting other people's beliefs, we will find
that we are unable to get to know ourselves, and that we are
unable to believe fully and deeply. Our first duty is
to ourselves, for the person who has come to know him or her
self can then reach out and help others effectively.
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Questions to ponder:
1. Do you believe in yourself?
How do your actions reflect that belief?
2. Do you believe in God, no matter
what you conceive Him (or Her, or It) to be? How do
your actions reflect that belief?
3. How
many of your beliefs come from other people, and their
insistence that you must believe certain things in certain
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For further thought:
Grant
us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace--that
we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and
security,
an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do our best not only
in our own lands, but throughout the
world. And in that faith let us
march toward the clean
world our hands can make.
Stephen
Vincent Benet |
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