My Million Dollar Desire Goes Live
Published by jdonna on Tagged Business, Making Money, Self-DevelopmentI’ve been thinking a lot lately about this blog, so I haven’t been keeping up with the posts. I know so much more now than I did last May—not that I’ve made much yet, but the traffic has started to increase, and I have a much better idea of how to market online than I did when I began.
If you’ve read my previous posts, you know that I am interested in helping myself and others achieve our Million Dollar Desires. What is a million dollar desire? Something that excites your passion, but, at present, seems to be unreachable. Do you believe that if you can think it, you can achieve it? I do. It may not exactly come about as you envision it, but you can make it happen.
I tested this theory by helping a group of young people raise enough money to go to World Youth Day this July. It didn’t come about the way I had thought it would, but it happened.
The Million Dollar Christmas Desire
Published by jdonna on Tagged Christmas, ReflectionsLanguage both helps us to understand the universe and hides it from us. If I write “table” the image that is called to mind is most probably different for each reader. Dining room, kitchen, conference–there are many types of tables. They could have one leg (a pedestal table), or two, three, four or more legs. They could be made of many different types of materials. Even wood comes in many different varieties. The only way that the word “table” works is for us to accept it as an abstraction.
But this gives us a false sense of security that we know the “table.” The word “table” is not the table itself. We really don’t know what table the word refers to.
So what about the word “God?” Its function is the same as the function for the word “table,” that is, it refers to something. But instead of referring to an instance of a table, it refers to a unique totality. We say the word “God” but nobody really knows what we are talking about. We define God as “Father,” “Love,” “Omnipotent,” etc., but we know these words do not define God. God is infinite, and has no definition. What gender is God? He, she, it, they? He is either all genders, or beyond genders, or both. How does a finite being define an infinite being? We can’t.
The best we can do is use metaphors. God is like a father. God is like a mother. God is like a lover. All these metaphors help us understand an aspect of God, but they do not encompass God. They are our words, and they in no way limit God, just our perception of Him (Her, It, Them).
If we were to stop there, we’d have to say that God can never be known. But now we have to put God into the equation. Because God is not an object, like a table. Throughout human history, God, or that which created man, has also provided man with sustenance–food, rain, fire–and information with which to interpret the gift of Life. He has given us metaphors about Himself.
Buddha, the prophets, Jesus, the saints and all those we think of as holy men and women have brought us ways of looking at God that were not intuitively obvious to people of their time. Their work can be seen as an ongoing attempt by God to help mankind grow into a relationship with God.
I am going to suggest a definition for God, despite the absurdity of attempting to define the infinite, and I think this definition works, because it is really a definition of the infinite’s relationship to the finite. God is that which has caused us to exist. That cause could be, an entity, a force, an alien, nature, life, even a random occurrence, whatever–that is our God. To deny God in this context, is to deny our own existence. We are; therefore, that which created us must be.
And so we come to Christmas and its Million Dollar Desire. We are born out of desire–that which created us, wanted us, therefore we are. We are left with the question why? Why are we made?
The Christmas answer is that we were made to have a loving relationship with our Creator. To love and be loved by God. Jesus called God Abba — Daddy — and gave us the great commandments: Love God with everything you are and everything you have, and your neighbors as yourself.
Gratitude, Love, Peace, and Shared Prosperity, this is the Million Dollar Christmas Desire. May we all find and participate in that Desire this Christmas.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Cool Christmas Links
Published by jdonna on Tagged Christmas, ReflectionsWhere’s the Big Guy?
NORAD is the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the United States and Canada. Since 1958, NORAD men, women, family and friends have volunteered their time to personally respond to Christmas Eve phone calls and emails from children.
In addition, they now track Santa using the internet. Last year, millions of people who wanted to know Santa’s whereabouts visited the NORAD Tracks Santa website. Not only that, media from all over the world rely on NORAD as a trusted source to provide Christmas Eve updates on Santa’s journey.
- http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html. It’s the place to be on the web on Christmas eve.
- Visit Kid’s Countdown on this site, http://www.noradsanta.org/en/countdown.html, for neat video games all the way through Christmas.