Feb
17
我最近在看很多年前買的一本書。它是【Blue like Jazz】。作者用一種很casual的方式去思想Christianity很多不同的理念。我覺得很有趣。我想分享少少。I'm going to share in english for my friends who don't read chinese.
In the chapter Belief, Donald Miller talked about something that really made me think and reflect about my own beliefs.
"One morning I was sitting at the counter in the kitchen talking to Rachael about love and marriage, and she was gleaming about her hustband a little, and I told her in one of those rare moments of vulnerability that I was scared to get married because I thought my wife might fall out of love with me, suddenly, after seeing a movie or reading a book or seeing me naked. You never know what might trigger these things. Rachael looked at me through the steam that was coming off her coffee and said, very wisely and comfortingly, that when a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is, she said."
This experience helped the author realize "that believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is like making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon."
Donald Miller was not trying to talk about love, but rather, he was more interested in why we believe in God. He noticed that we often like pop-culture icons not because they share our beliefs, but simply because they are cool. "The undercurrent running through culture is not giving people value based upon what they believe and what they are doing to aid society, the undercurrent is deciding their value based upon whether or not they are cool."
He pointed out that we don't believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool. The problem is "the belief that there is a God and a devil and a heaven and a hell is not a fashionable thing to believe."
I think this is a great topic to reflect on. What do I believe? Why do I believe it? Are we only doing things and associating ourselves with things that are considered cool?
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