tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287736566569833126.post6706158392941534106..comments2023-06-06T05:43:42.292-05:00Comments on Robert Pelfrey: Peace Trainrobertcpelfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215300448575481477noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287736566569833126.post-5063762242565375952009-12-12T06:06:03.238-06:002009-12-12T06:06:03.238-06:00"Life is what happens while we're busy ma..."Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans." Being busy is not having the chance to enjoy and see the beauty of life! Lovely, very lovely!Alisonhttp://www.freeresveratrolultra.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287736566569833126.post-7137358512329680632008-12-20T10:38:00.000-06:002008-12-20T10:38:00.000-06:00You are so right in many unfortunate ways! While I...You are so right in many unfortunate ways! While I certainly believe that God still works most powerfully through his church (the Body on earth of which Christ himself is the Head), there are certainly downsides to "religion." It's true that God is so vast and our world so far from what he intends that we must currently worship in symbols and "shadows" of the heavenly presence and things to come. But too many "religious" folk use those symbols and dogmatically-held doctrines to keep people OUT of the supernatural church, rather than inviting them in...which is the whole purpose of Christ's coming and Christmas, etc. Doesn't have to be this way...and shouldn't.robert c. pelfreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16188909995562407366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287736566569833126.post-77756650273887489172008-12-20T10:37:00.000-06:002008-12-20T10:37:00.000-06:00Perhaps it's just a cynical place, but I'm feeling...Perhaps it's just a cynical place, but I'm feeling religion (perhaps not God) IS really like a train. It is an idea that has lost its place in the present--obsolete. We continue to try to push the idea, but there are other ideas that are actually moving us forward. However, so many cling to the train, refusing to acknowledge that there are any other avenues outside the prescribed coal chugging track hugging train. I think maybe God jumped the tracks some time ago, yet many religious folk are still stuck there, many with the guardrails down, preventing others from getting by.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287736566569833126.post-75725798051208551632008-12-20T10:16:00.000-06:002008-12-20T10:16:00.000-06:00Good insights! It's like the John Lennon lyric, "...Good insights! It's like the John Lennon lyric, "Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans." <BR/><BR/>We miss y'all too, and we hope you'll all be having your best Christmas ever!robert c. pelfreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16188909995562407366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1287736566569833126.post-59677497703497287382008-12-18T19:41:00.000-06:002008-12-18T19:41:00.000-06:00Oddly enough, this reminded me of the lesson about...Oddly enough, this reminded me of the lesson about God that I feel I'm constantly re-learning. Timing. Most trains are reputed for being timely. Regardless of whether they actually make it on schedule, however, no one who's waiting is going anywhere anyway.<BR/><BR/>God's timing is not ours. Why push it? Why try to do anything before the correct time arrives? While we wait we can be doing things -- reading the paper, perhaps doing the crossword -- but why try to get where we're going without him?<BR/><BR/>This may make absolutely no sense but it just sort of came to me as I was reading your post.<BR/><BR/>Merry Christmas to you and your lovely ladies! Lexington, Kentucky misses you!knhamilton87https://www.blogger.com/profile/09670667674209026064noreply@blogger.com