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God's expression of love is the blood from his slit wrist on the cross now availed for lifeless souls throughout History.

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A story by a man about a woman


a man once was given the task of guarding over a young woman. - the young woman, unfortunately, was turned into a grotesque demon every full moon, so that she was unrecognizable. on one such night the man was standing guard outside of her house, not knowing that she had snuck out the back. he was beginning to dose off while standing up when he heard a commotion in the front courtyard. he grabbed his bow and quiver and ran out to find a monstrous demon trudging towards him, malice gleaming in its eyes. in that moment, fear gripping him, the man forgot that the woman transformed on nights such as these when the full moon was out, and he fired three arrows in rapid succession at the beast, which groaned and fell to the ground. Upon falling the girl transformed into herself again.
At that moment, the girl's father - the king - ran out and yelled at the sight of the young woman lying in the courtyard, wounded and covered in blood. "you clumsy oaf!" he shouted at the man. "couldn't you see it was her? you knew she transformed on nights where the full moon shined! as for me, i will never let you stand guard at my palace again!"
the man with the bow looked up with tears in his eyes. "your majesty, all i wanted was to protect your daughter the princess," he replied. "in the moment of peril i was not thinking clearly. please do not judge my ability as a guardsman based on my erroneous decision in the moment of crisis."

~Anonymous

The Kierkegaarden Alternatives

"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

"Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success -- but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity."

"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes."

~Soren Kierkegaard

"You need to become absolutely determined to follow Jesus. It is not true that you are too weak to overcome sin – that is a lie of the devil. In Jesus it is possible to overcome sin. That is why he died on the cross. Live totally for him."

~J.H Arnold

My general experience and a plausable solution

It should be unbearable to those of us who believe if we are worthless for the task for which we have been put on earth. We have been placed in the midst of creation, but sadly we have lost the feeling that we are here for a purpose, not for ourselves, but for something far greater – to be servants of the living one. This is what makes us feel so sad, so defeated. People mostly sit in church thinking only about themselves. Each one bemoans his own lot and looks for something in himself and for himself, without really knowing what God’s purpose for the earth is. One would like to cry out to them all, “Good people, forget yourselves! Think of God’s cause! Start working for that! Or at least be sorry, not that things are going badly for you, but that you have nothing better to do than concern yourselves with your own petty affairs.”

~Blumhardt