Stuffing

Aircraft

When I was in my early 20s, I would sometimes have these terrifying dreams about aircraft going down and then I would wake up and check the news and an aircraft really did go down. It was spooky. I had to pray and ask God to take it away because it freaked me out too much. It did stop. This summer I am working on a project on structural health monitoring in aircraft. Odd, but good!

I made a comment on Robert from Oregon's blog about something I have been thinking about recently. I was walking by an 'adult' video store and was thinking about characteristics of sin. That a feature of sin can be that we are trying to fill some hole in our life with something other than what God wants to fill it with. God wants to fill us with His pure love, so instead people watch this warped version of love in the adult videos. God wants to fill us with happiness, but instead people drink liquid happiness. God wants to fill us with joy, but instead people take drugs for a false joy. It is a substitution of something carnal for what is supposed to be something Godly. Maybe that's why God hates sin. It's his competition! (and a rather poor competition at that)

BUT sometimes people use good things to fill the same holes. Sometimes people get married because they feel a lack of love and instead of having God fill them, they look to a human to do that. So even good things can be twisted by the holes in our insides.

Really, only God fixes us, and sometimes in the most bizarre ways. We can run, but if we really want to be fixed, He will always be there.

posted by Aphra @ 6/06/2009 08:28:00 PM