I think God sends signs all the time, but most of the time we ignore them. I am thinking of the movie Bruce Almighty as an illustration, comic but true. I think God created nature and used nature to fulfill his plan through the Incarnation and everything leading up to it and its fulfillment, so we can expect natural signs. The problem as always is discernment. If we are in the habit of prayer, sacraments, Mass, scripture reading, penance, devotion etc. with the aim of knowing and doing God's will at all phases of our life, this will come naturally. If we are continually combatting God's will, insisting on our own will, it will be very likely we listen only to that which affirms our own decisions and ignore signs from God.
I don't know. God doesn't talk to me.
I don't know. God doesn't talk to me.
Maybe we should file a complaint with quality control.
no, i mean i was told that, and i wouldn't have been told that if it didn't mean anything.
come on spider you know the story.
god tells me to write a letter to somebody i don't know and i think it's a dumb idea and i try to get out of doing it. in the meantime the somebody gets sick and god tells me to send him flowers. i thought that was less awkward. so i sit down to write "get well soon. love, lori" and seven paragraphs of beautiful poetry comes of me. i continued to channel poetry from some being who was apparently not used to inhabiting a body! and in the middle of channeling the poetry god tells me to go get my bible and read the book of revelations. i did and when i got to chapter 12 i was interrupted by some other bizarre spiritual interaction, and then i'm told that i am the woman in chapter 12. then led to 2 john and told i was the lady this letter's addressed to, and then to the very end of the bible, and told i was the tree of life. and that wasn't the end of it.
now i don't know about your brain spider, but i am telling you with absolutely no uncertainty, that mine isn't capable of coming up with some shit like that.
I don't need your permission.
no, i mean i was told that, and i wouldn't have been told that if it didn't mean anything.
come on spider you know the story.
god tells me to write a letter to somebody i don't know and i think it's a dumb idea and i try to get out of doing it. in the meantime the somebody gets sick and god tells me to send him flowers. i thought that was less awkward. so i sit down to write "get well soon. love, lori" and seven paragraphs of beautiful poetry comes of me. i continued to channel poetry from some being who was apparently not used to inhabiting a body! and in the middle of channeling the poetry god tells me to go get my bible and read the book of revelations. i did and when i got to chapter 12 i was interrupted by some other bizarre spiritual interaction, and then i'm told that i am the woman in chapter 12. then led to 2 john and told i was the lady this letter's addressed to, and then to the very end of the bible, and told i was the tree of life. and that wasn't the end of it.
now i don't know about your brain spider, but i am telling you with absolutely no uncertainty, that mine isn't capable of coming up with some shit like that.
Then that's not really love, that's just empathy and fellowship with your fellow man, nothing wrong with that, even apes do it. But we are also commanded to love our enemies (child rapists, murderers, war criminals), that's not only unethical, it's perverse. But one thing is does do is reinforce the notion that you and I are flawed, since it's clearly an impossible command. We are made flawed and commanded to be well, it's the very model of a cult. The sooner we transcend these ideas the better.