Comments on: What are your spiritual default settings?

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:32:32 +0000

Thanks, LA. Hope you enjoyed your camping trip!

By: LA

LA — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:56:01 +0000

I am, by nature, a very chipper person and always trying to see the best in everything. People hate camping with me because I'm up at the crack of dawn singing with the birds. So, my spiritual default setting is generally very positive. I know God will do great and wondrous things in my life and I pray for others to see that light and rejoice in it too. I do have difficulty with my own impatience, but I'm only impatient with people who are acting like idiots who aren't idiots (just pretending to be). I try to meet people where they are at, but there are some people who have a false modesty that just drives me crazy. I also get impatient with people who aren't “real” – people with masks and hidden agendas.

Do I get down in the doldrums? Yes, I do…I definitely do – usually when I'm unable to “do”. Doing really helps keep my spirits where they naturally are.

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:29:39 +0000

Cool. The “sovereignty of God” is too theological a concept to warm my heart. That God loves me, and that all the events that happen to me are filtered through his loving power (and that he has the power to alter my circumstances) warms my heart far more. Though it's just another way of saying the same thing!!

By: prochaskas

prochaskas — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:59:20 +0000

I suppose my main default is to seek the perspective of knowing / remembering that God is sovereign everywhere and at all times and over everything -- even if we should lose everything.

That relationship trumps nearly everything.

That compassion and respect should trump everything else in relationship.

My negative defaults are to feel left all alone to carry all the weight of all the responsibility for myself and everyone else, and to feel unwanted and unvalued and ridiculed, and worthy of it. And, sometimes, not quite a default but something that comes up in the darkest moments, to fear that the whole God thing is a wicked oppressive deceitful lie.