Tag: reason

FOR SUCH A TIME

Posted on by Olaf

History tells the stories of when human civilisation has come under great threat through war, disaster or disease.  Around 1350, an infectious fever killed up to 200 million people.  Rats carrying infected fleas from China and India brought The Black Death resulting in populations being reduced by up to 50% around the world.  It is still around in some parts of the world but using the broad-based antibiotic streptomycin has proven to be dramatically successful against the bubonic plague within 12 hours of infection.  What is the time on the clock for humanity and who might step forward ‘for such a time as this?’

THE ANSWER

Posted on by Olaf

You could go down a street, house to house and person to person looking for the answer.  The question is what is the question?!  If you get to the end of the street, whichever country, whatever the style of housing, you might come to a House of God where you should find the answer.  You can only give an answer to the biggest questions if you have first had the answer yourself.  If you have, then that answer will be known by you, seen by others who know you and can be known by others who badly need to find the question so they can find the answer by finding you!

  • ‘People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see’ – Leonardo da Vinci

on PURPOSE

Posted on by Olaf

If you were able to ask this Praying Mantis what its life’s purpose is, it’s unlikely you would get an answer!  And yet it would go about its business of survival and reproduction without a further comment! Many human beings act in the same way on the treadmill of life in their established daily routines, giving little thought as to any ‘grand purpose’. When a baby takes its first breath, it has no concept of there being a purpose to life and certainly has no idea that there is one.  Growing through the life cycle, most people will think about the big question of ‘why am I here’, for it is the most important thing a person wants to discover. Sadly, the majority will draw their last breath without discovering life’s big purpose.