Morality

Morality is concerned with the good and bad qualities.  According to morality, a person is good if she is honest, truthful, authentic, and trustworthy; and bad if she is lying, stealing, untrustworthiness, dishonesty, and violence. 

Morality is needed by society otherwise life on earth would become impossible.   But observe a good person and you will see that her life is not one of joy.  She is in continuous conflict.  She continuously makes judgments.  Her mind is full of condemnation and judgment.  Because she is trying so hard to be good, she is judging others also by the same criteria.  She cannot accept you as you are, only if you fulfill her demands of being good.  And because she cannot accept people as they are, she condemns them.  They are all sinners. 

Are these the qualities of a moral, good person to you?    

Very interesting perspective!

    


       

     

 

    

 

   

Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.
It is more than 1000 light years away.

Now TRY to wrap your mind around this………

Below is a Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field Infrared view of countless
ENTIRE galaxies that are billions of light-years away!!

         

AND … below is a close up of one of the darkest regions of the photo above!

        

                                                      

                 AMAZING!!!!

                               Where does it all end??? 

                                And how do we fit in? 

 

Sin

Humans are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing, thinking, and feeling.  We give in to our bodily impulse.  We continuously contradict ourselves each moment.  For examples: we max out the credit cards knowing that we shouldn’t; we consume excessive amount alcohol knowing that it hurts our body and make driving dangerous for us and others; we stuff ourselves with fatty foods knowing that it is bad for our bodies; we engage in inappropriate behavior knowing of the negative consequences.   Action goes in one direction, thinking goes in another, and feeling is somewhere else.  We fall apart.  We loose integrity, unity; and then we feel more miserable.  And there are many painkillers available: Alcohol, prescription drugs, legal and illegal drugs, food, sex, and other entertainment.  It takes guts to be alert, aware, and stay conscious.  The latter path is much more harder.

Why do we sin?    

Admitting the Mistakes

Why is it so hard to some of us to admit our mistakes?  I look back at my life and I too rarely say “I’m sorry,” especially to my children.  To the ego, saying “I’m sorry” is like draining the air out of a tire.   And because I didn’t admit my mistake (confess), I held onto my guilt and continued to rationalize or justify my mistake.  I covered it up.  This got exhausted and, after a while, I disliked myself. 

When Jesus invited us to confess our sin, he meant for us to admit that we have made mistakes. It was an opportunity to be humble and learn.    It was not an invitation for blame and punishment.  He tried to help us realized that being “wrong” is not bad.  We are not condemned by our error.  It was just being human.  We all make mistakes. That is just the way it is.   The hammer is not going to drop by the God of the Old Testament.  Jesus wants us to know that God is not an angry God.  He doesn’t want to punish us.  He just wants to help us learn from your mistakes and we can’t learn if we don’t admit our error. 

I pay more visits the halls of confessions these days.  When I know I am wrong, I admit it.  Apologize. Make amends.  I ask for forgiveness.  If I can’t admit it face to face, I’d write an email. If the person is not very forgiving, then I know that I have done my part in forgiving myself. I have to accept the facts that this person is not going to forgive me at this time.  I give him some space to heal.  I let go and let God.  It takes a lot of courage to tell the truth.  I am surprised to see how easy it is for people to forgive me when I am honest and take responsibility for correcting my mistakes.  I found that I make more friends than the time I was denying my guilt.  Maybe it’s not so terrible to be wrong.  May I can be wrong and still be a good person. 

Sometimes it’s wrong to be right.  I can really beat someone else up with the truth.  Self righteous behavior does that.  And sometimes it is right to be wrong, because I become humble and willing to learn.