My blog (and life) mission statement, if you will, is Learning to express the joys of life,
creation, and the journey taken with a loving Creator. Yours, mine, and
especially, ours.
My blog title is Education.
My blog mottos are a secular one, “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty
mind with an open one,” and spiritual one, “Be not conformed to this world, but
be transformed by the renewal of your mind.”
What does that all actually mean though? And why do I post
pictures of my cat?
Well, my biggest concern as a believer is that each piece of
creation (people, animals, the earth, the energy that makes up the universe[s],
and along with that, little me) is in one, some, or many ways away from the God
who created us in love. What if, I think, I could do something to get myself and
others to step toward our unconditionally loving God, and I chose not to? It’s
not my business to judge people as “needing to be saved,” nor within my power
to understand what exactly comes after death for any of us, even after much study,
prayer, and trust in God. I trust God is here now, and is eternal, so my concern
is not for the future, but for the constant present. In the constant
present, it is my concern to share. To share the God I trust and believe in so
that others (yes, including that scoundrel O the cat) can see a God that I
believe is theirs too, so they might get to know God better on their own terms
and in their own time, even if their journey is something I can’t understand or
might not agree with. If I struggle daily to live as my authentic self (in
union with my Creator), I believe I will be expressing my truth, that Jesus,
who is my God, said and meant and made it so that “It is finished.” This truth
transforms my life from an existence separate from God to journey beautifully tangled
up in God’s love. That’s it. Scary to say, and even harder to live. But it’s
the only life worth living, the only life that’s true for me.
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