Poetry: The Paradox of life. God is love, because God gives life.

That's a hard question for anyone to ask and to answer, and perhaps the only satisfying answer could come from ourselves, that is, if we want such an answer. If we do find some meaning of our own, and are satisfied with it, who's to know if we might be missing out on the real meaning then, if we do not keep searching it out. And yet the real answer might be that there is no meaning in what God does. Maybe God leaves it up to us to find such meaning, if we want to do so. The greater way to live is just from God's love, and any meanings found along the way of loving are merely then just dressings for us on our journey with God, and are really just merely explanations for our mind, but not necessarily food for our heart, which never needs food like our body does. Our soul nourishes itself on giving and receiving love.

@innertalks Is God simply love, then?

@TheHorse Yes, I sort of think so. Love has a way, a mind of its own, is more powerful than any of us, a force that seems stronger than what we could muster up inside of us. God is love, a lot of others have said that too.

Do you mean life in the larger sense? Or the ephemeral life we (as individuals) live on this planet for 80 or so years?

Life was created from love, but it then lives on its own until, it accepts God's love as being its life in itself. This probably applies more to humans with freedom of choice and the consciousness to accept God's love. Why did this come about this way then? God is love, and as God created life. God created it from love with love in it to enable it to love, but when the switch was made to allow sin into that life, it switched off the auto functioning aspect of love too so to speak, so with knowledge or consciousness, came the choice to either live from love again through following God's will for your life, or by still continually allowing sin to keep changing love in you to greed and want of things other than God's will for your life.

Heh. This post inspired me to post just now. I hope you check it out.

That's what I think too. I know that for me, I would not be ever satisfied with any other meaning. If God never existed, I would wish that I never existed too.

Sometimes, what appears to be a superficial, meaningless life though, is not really so. Our seeing someone's life like that is more a reflection of how our own life is. On the other hand, to look too hard for fulfillment and meaning loses it, for the looker. Do we even need fulfillment and meaning in our lives? Should we even look for it? What is the real point of our lives? Love is the only point, to life, to anything. Meaning, and such interpretive understanding, even thinking, are all merely add-ons in our own self, distracting us from love, more than anything else. All searching is of the mind. We need to recognise this truth, drop into our heart, see that the knocked on door never exists in our heart. It is a mere figment in our mind of our mind, and so is the search. There is only light. There are no tunnels to go through to find light at the end of any tunnel. There are no tunnels, only which we construct with our mind, in our mind. Outside of our mind is love. We should let love into our mind too, by dropping all thinking of anything at all, of want and desire, and the energetic pursuit of goals, and mind-found quasi meanings to anything.

@Shiva49 Thanks siva. I threw that reply in, because my mind has always given me more problems than solutions, more pain than joy. For you, it might be different, you might like the taste of chewing over things. I don't. I want my answers on my plate, but I do not even need to eat them. I would not get satisfaction from that. All I want are answers. I am not interested in searching, learning, or anything else. It is all just clutching at straws, blowing in the wind. I want to be the wind, and I will accept nothing less.

@innertalks Well, we all analyze our lives, thoughts, and actions all the time. That is where our mind comes in to play its part. Whenever I think of some course of action, I also consider the consequences whether it fits into my overall scheme of life. My take is to value-add, become a co-creator, love life and my creator for this opportunity, sort of giving back what I take with interest. So I like to exercise my mind. If my beliefs and actions are out of sync with my ideals, my journey becomes jarred, frayed I look for meaning and fulfillment through learning along the way and adjusting to the circumstances. I agree, Steve, God is love and when our actions are based on pure love, we are well on our way to Godliness - siva