Weird little moment...
I had a rather different kind of evening tonight.
I had taken my car in for an oil change, and given some time to kill, I wandered to the Chapters nearby... where a little book called A Day with a Perfect Stranger caught my eye.
Reading the dust cover, it turns out this was the sequel to Dinner with a Perfect Stranger which I had heard about, and is about a guy who ends up having dinner with Jesus.
Anyway, this it the sequel, where his wife sits beside Jesus on a place.... they were both ostensibly agnostic previously, but this turned them to the whole "God thing". Okay, well, not exactly... it's more of a dialogue where Jesus actually rails against organized religion, and encourages one to have a "personal relashionship with God".
Piqued my interest. 33 pages later, I decided to buy it. 101 pages later, the book was finished (not a heavy read, by any means), and so was my oil change.
Now, don't get all worried that I've gone all "born again" or anything, but I just found it to raise some very interesting points about human nature.
First, it tables an interesting theory as to why many men are so petrified of commitment. Suggesting that since boys tend to be praised and encouraged based on what they produce while growing up, rather than who they are, they are drawn to more tangible ways to gain fulfillment, such at work, sports, etc. rather than attempting to have an emotional connection, which could potentially lead to rejection. Seeing as I was basically raised in the exact opposite manner, this potentially explains why, while Über-competitive, I tend to shun work, etc. for close relationships.
Secondly, in the book Jesus (prior to revealing who he is) even goes so far as to state that he dislikes religion, and goes on attempting to delineate between God and religion, citing how often evil has been perpetrated in the name of organized religion.
It gets a little preachy, and I started to roll my eyes when the author got into how we can't ever be totally fulfilled without God in our lives, but I guess when he has already decried organized religion, this is where the "personal relashionship with God" thing comes in.....
I don't know....
One final thing that intrigued me was when Jay (what Jesus introduced himself as) got the protagonist to suspend belief for a moment, and allow that God exists, and then drew parallels between her relstionship with her daughter, and God's with all of us, it makes sense that (again, assuming His existence - which I am neither advocating nor denying here, I'd like to point out) He would create us with the capacity to "hear" Him in some way, as if He loves us like a mother loves a child, how could He not?
Again, I don't know. I just found it an interesting take on just about the oldest subject matter out there, and there's nothing wrong with getting the ol' gray matter bubbling now and again...
I had taken my car in for an oil change, and given some time to kill, I wandered to the Chapters nearby... where a little book called A Day with a Perfect Stranger caught my eye.
Reading the dust cover, it turns out this was the sequel to Dinner with a Perfect Stranger which I had heard about, and is about a guy who ends up having dinner with Jesus.
Anyway, this it the sequel, where his wife sits beside Jesus on a place.... they were both ostensibly agnostic previously, but this turned them to the whole "God thing". Okay, well, not exactly... it's more of a dialogue where Jesus actually rails against organized religion, and encourages one to have a "personal relashionship with God".
Piqued my interest. 33 pages later, I decided to buy it. 101 pages later, the book was finished (not a heavy read, by any means), and so was my oil change.
Now, don't get all worried that I've gone all "born again" or anything, but I just found it to raise some very interesting points about human nature.
First, it tables an interesting theory as to why many men are so petrified of commitment. Suggesting that since boys tend to be praised and encouraged based on what they produce while growing up, rather than who they are, they are drawn to more tangible ways to gain fulfillment, such at work, sports, etc. rather than attempting to have an emotional connection, which could potentially lead to rejection. Seeing as I was basically raised in the exact opposite manner, this potentially explains why, while Über-competitive, I tend to shun work, etc. for close relationships.
Secondly, in the book Jesus (prior to revealing who he is) even goes so far as to state that he dislikes religion, and goes on attempting to delineate between God and religion, citing how often evil has been perpetrated in the name of organized religion.
It gets a little preachy, and I started to roll my eyes when the author got into how we can't ever be totally fulfilled without God in our lives, but I guess when he has already decried organized religion, this is where the "personal relashionship with God" thing comes in.....
I don't know....
One final thing that intrigued me was when Jay (what Jesus introduced himself as) got the protagonist to suspend belief for a moment, and allow that God exists, and then drew parallels between her relstionship with her daughter, and God's with all of us, it makes sense that (again, assuming His existence - which I am neither advocating nor denying here, I'd like to point out) He would create us with the capacity to "hear" Him in some way, as if He loves us like a mother loves a child, how could He not?
Again, I don't know. I just found it an interesting take on just about the oldest subject matter out there, and there's nothing wrong with getting the ol' gray matter bubbling now and again...
posted by Iain @ 7:58 PM
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