I find it super interesting that people are coming to God in the ways I always felt he wanted us to.
Orthodoxy and all I watched push countless people away. Jesus came to take the Love of God and cover the biggest sinners, most imperfect, most flawed, and most attacked by darkness. He didn’t come to sweep away the perfect most orthodox. The entire reason the went to task with the Philistines and their 300+ rules of Orthodoxy.
God loves you in ways you can’t fathom. It’s boundless and beyond words. You can’t screw up too much. If you remorse and crave to be in his presence and strive to do better - he is there.
So build that personal relationship. Just talk to him. I go on walks. Just me, Him, the sun, wind - I had to learn to be still.
Anyway after awhile you learn He is pretty cheeky. I mean with Billions of Children he’s basically a great appreciator of Hilarious things - like birthing John Durham on 3/16/1950.
I tell you what lol. He’s never stopped me from making a total mess of things. Looking back I can just imagine how hard he was chuckling at my dumbassery.
Orthodoxy does seem as if there are many rules, but when you realize it has existed for hundred and hundreds of years, mostly unchanged, you know that throughout the years it has picked up many customs and traditions that are a bit foreign to the ways we live now. Nothing is so onerous that it is undoable, it's just a culture. It is not Pharisaical, I dispute that. It is based in love. If all you see is rules in Orthodoxy, you have missed the point. Read the fathers and see what they say.
I find it super interesting that people are coming to God in the ways I always felt he wanted us to.
Orthodoxy and all I watched push countless people away. Jesus came to take the Love of God and cover the biggest sinners, most imperfect, most flawed, and most attacked by darkness. He didn’t come to sweep away the perfect most orthodox. The entire reason the went to task with the Philistines and their 300+ rules of Orthodoxy.
God loves you in ways you can’t fathom. It’s boundless and beyond words. You can’t screw up too much. If you remorse and crave to be in his presence and strive to do better - he is there.
So build that personal relationship. Just talk to him. I go on walks. Just me, Him, the sun, wind - I had to learn to be still.
Anyway after awhile you learn He is pretty cheeky. I mean with Billions of Children he’s basically a great appreciator of Hilarious things - like birthing John Durham on 3/16/1950.
I tell you what lol. He’s never stopped me from making a total mess of things. Looking back I can just imagine how hard he was chuckling at my dumbassery.
Orthodoxy does seem as if there are many rules, but when you realize it has existed for hundred and hundreds of years, mostly unchanged, you know that throughout the years it has picked up many customs and traditions that are a bit foreign to the ways we live now. Nothing is so onerous that it is undoable, it's just a culture. It is not Pharisaical, I dispute that. It is based in love. If all you see is rules in Orthodoxy, you have missed the point. Read the fathers and see what they say.