Dear Lord, thank you for your love that is within me which shines with the warmth of sunshine. Nope Pandora with lyric music isn't going to work. "Sunshine on My Shoulders" influenced straight away as Krauss' "Fly Away" did yesterday. And, "Dust in the Wind" is leading my mind. I'll switch to my Vivaldi channel.
This book I'm reading called The Naked Jesus by John Casimir O'Keefe is fascinating. It's another anti-institutional Christianity book. However, it doesn't quite dwell too much on the short comings of the Church, though any such dwelling is too much for me, its focus is the concept of the naked Jesus. Much of it, I see as a reflection of many ideas I have contemplated over the past several years. In particular, my thoughts on realizing that what we call reality is, or more precisely what we refer to as reality, no, that's not good. I realize that we live as if our perception of the universe is reality. But, in fact it is only a reflection of reality that is distorted by the physical medium through which our senses detected reality, distorted by our senses translating the detections to our brain, interpreted and hence distorted by our brain's model of the universe and finally and most importantly distorted by our sense of and belief in what we think of how the universe should be.
Thank you Lord for the wisdom with which you created me. May I learn to realize that all I experience is a distorted and biased perception and while nearly all the time my perception will serve me well may I always be cognizant that it may fail to adequately represent reality and may I be able to recognize when it doesn't. May I always be open to modifying my model of the universe and grow in deeper understanding of it and of all with whom I inhabit it. Amen to you Lord Jesus my Lord and God. I pray for peace among us one and all on this planet. Amen, Amen, my dear sweet Lord, Amen.
