Vatic Note: I found that starting out the New Year with this, should ensure the best year of our lives in 2015. I was surprised by his surprise about our love affair with God. What I disagree with is his statement "This need is sublimated in romantic love which is a form of idolatry." He maybe right about some people, who deify Love, into something more than what it is. Love is the power we have within us to expand, nurture and care about those that we are directed to interact with, through this emotion called Love, including God.
If He is our "father" in Heaven or elsewhere, then yes, indeed we should and would if He were our earthly father, to have a great need to feel loved by God and to Love Him as well. I call it the "Hole in our Soul" syndrome, which when we find God, is filled to capacity. There is no comparison between our love for God and our love for another of the opposite sex, or at least I have never experienced it.
Imagine, if you will, that "love" is the most powerful emotion on earth in humans. Now think about that power and when its being used. Yes, you can even heal yourself through prayer which is really God healing you, in answer to your prayer, but then that is what a "father" would do for his child out of love.
Gregg Braden, an excellent scientist, wrote an excellent book, called "The Healing Power of Prayer". A father that answers our prayers, either through making our wishes a reality, OR providing what we need, instead of what we want. If we need to learn lessons, and would not do so, if our prayers were fulfilled, then He is doing what is best for us. Isn't that what a good Secular Father would do?
You read this below and see what you think. I don't agree since it has never happened to me to feel this way that I feel about God, and do so about a human special person. There is truly no comparison. Maybe I am the odd ball. LOL
Our Love Affair With God
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By Henry Makow, December 31, 2014
We don't realize that we have a great need to feel loved by God, and to love Him.
This need is sublimated in romantic love which is a form of idolatry.
by Henry Makow Ph.D
(from Nov 27, 2009)
While making a spaghetti sauce, I put on a collection of old Paul Anka hits.
Listening to the lyrics, it struck me: If you imagine the love object is God, instead of some empty headed girl with regular features, there's little difference between popular love songs and religious hymns, prayers and chants.
We are all pilgrims and God (Love) is our Mecca.
I don't have to tell you that 97 per cent of all popular songs are love songs. A visitor from another planet would conclude that our religion is romantic love.
But instead of recognizing the real object of our desire, we have fixated on the opposite sex, whom we mystify and idealize to reflect our true sublimated desire.
I am not a Jungian, but I agree with Carl Jung's statement: "If you take away God, man will invent a thousand false ones."
They have taken away God. You can't mention the word in polite company. As if, given the magnificence of the universe and the complexity of the natural world, the concept of a Creator and a Design is so outlandish that it must be banned.
The people who want to replace God (with themselves) are responsible for our inability to mention or imagine God when it is so simple.
God is synonymous with our spiritual ideals and desires: truth, beauty, love, peace, bliss, justice and harmony. So don't blame God for letting bad things happen to good people. Bad people are responsible, the same people who abolished God.
We are God's agents. If we don't bring about his Kingdom, it won't happen. Eventually, we'll all become extinct.
GETTING BACK TO LOVE SONGS
Next time you hear a love song, imagine it's about God. You will be surprised how well it fits.
"I love you with all my heart, we'll never part, please stay with me...(God).""I'm so alone. All I want is somebody to love"
"Show me, you love me too."
"I'm so lonely; I'm so blue, now that you're gone."
These lyrics remind me of Christian, Muslim and Hindu mystics pining away for Divine Grace.
We're religious zealots, just like them. All that's missing are the white robes. We don't pray five times a day. We listen to these prayers 50-100 times a day.
But we've taken a wrong turn. Instead of recognizing the true object of our desire, we have glommed on to the opposite sex. We are looking for a person to play the role of God.
Frankly, we've been misdirected. (Think who runs the music and movie business.) And, of course, lust is a confounding factor ...
CONCLUSION
If we could just begin with the knowledge that God loves us, then we wouldn't have this desperate misguided need "for love" expressed in love songs.
"God loves you very much (your name here.)" And you love God for the precious gift of life. For the miracle of Creation.
We're never alone. God is our constant companion, a warm, glowing love at the center of our being. Our primary relationship is with Him.
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