Friday, 26 November, 2010
life runs the animals
If I had to pick an overall theme to bring a sense of coherence to the experience of life from the time of my first memories until now, I would have to say that it would be reasonable to describe all of it as an indepth study on anxiety. Not to give you the impression that I am a person with a noteworthy experience of anxiety or some sort of anxiety sufferer. I just mean that there is always that anxiety element, I think for everyone at all times, that is at various times greater or lesser. I wonder if a person who had no anxiety whatsoever about anything ever, if such a person where to exist, if they could truly be considered alive.
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Anxiety has to be part of life. It is part of the continuum of human experience. That, and there is simply no way that anyone can exist in this world without experiencing anxiety, even if that anxiety is so paltry as to be a nonchalant cognitive dissonance.
Given that, it really makes me wonder just how valid was Jesus's injunction to "not worry" (Matt. 6:34)? Were we to not worry, would we really be human? Yes, I consider anxiety and worry to be so closely related that it really isn't reasonable to attempt separating them as different experiences.
I don't know because I love that section of scripture.
In Luke 22:39-46 Jesus sounds quite worried himself to me.
Just think of how many people throughout history must have found a moment of peace/comfort or the courage to do something courageous after reading Matt 6:34.
I think that there must be more to it. He could have been talking to us about the way that we were created to live.
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