the real Worship … (07/25/13)
It is impossible to worship our version of God until we recognize, release & replace all the ways we worship the things, people & behaviors that are not God.
Once we awaken to this simple Truth — once we set aside, even for just one moment, all our fear & our lust & our condemnation of others & our boredom with the everyday; once we remember that life is not about accumulating things or being healthy or looking beautiful or having a good time or becoming successful or getting to Heaven after we die — then & only then are we able to reach out beyond what is comfortable to truly Care for others … which is, after all, the only worship that any God of LOVE truly wants to see or hear.
Simply put, if God is LOVE, then worshiping God is LOVE in action.
So … got worship?
“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it JC or Allah, bet it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough …
Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear.
Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.” ~ David Foster Wallace
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