February 16, 2009

a love letter to god, part two

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Dear God, I just want to say ‘Thanks’ for this brief life you have given me. I tried to do something mea­ning­ful with it. I really did. Thank You.

In Decem­ber, 2008, I pos­ted the pre­ce­ding stat­ment on my blog.
Since then, I’ve been pon­de­ring what I exactly I meant by it. What exactly did I mean by “mea­ning­ful”?
When we say “Mea­ning”, what are we actually tal­king about?
I have a few thoughts on the sub­ject.
[To Be Continued…]

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8 Responses to “a love letter to god, part two”

  1. Kiri says:
    February 16, 2009 at 10:33 PM

    And that is pretty much the core ques­tion of exis­ten­tia­lism. Exce­llent! Though I sup­pose God might disa­gree with existentialism…

  2. Hannah says:
    February 16, 2009 at 11:08 PM

    My life is a cons­tant search for mea­ning. Can’t wait to see where you take this…

  3. ming says:
    February 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM

    OoooooH, major pro­ject about mea­ning… but what does it mean?

  4. Bruce Lynn says:
    February 17, 2009 at 3:26 AM

    “We can dis­co­ver this mea­ning in life in three dif­fe­rent ways: (1) by crea­ting a work or doing a deed; (2) by expe­rien­cing a something or encoun­te­ring someone; and (3) by the atti­tude we take toward una­voi­da­ble suf­fe­ring.” — Vik­tor Frankl, “Man’s Search for Mea­ning” That sums it up for me — crea­ting, expe­rien­cing, hel­ping others.

  5. Elizabeth says:
    February 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM

    What does it mean to live a mea­ning­ful life? (As taken from Vin­cent New­fields article) It means to live a life FULL of mea­ning– one that is full of sig­ni­fi­cance, impor­tance and worth. (Sim­ple enough, right?)
    He goes on to dis­cuss how a soul finds mea­ning in sta­ying con­nec­ted with God. Life then beco­mes an adven­ture and takes on more mea­ning… By impac­ting the lives of others, one enjoys a sense of satis­fac­tion, accom­plish­ment and con­tent­ment that can be found no other way.
    So then it beco­mes about fin­ding your own uni­que way of impac­ting others in need. And by all means enjo­ying the pro­cess along the way.
    Hope this may be of help.

  6. Brienne says:
    February 17, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    I’m exci­ted to see where you go with this too–
    I guess I think and talk about “mea­ning” as value, pur­pose, context

  7. joanna says:
    February 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM

    you got it. than­king Him is mea­ning. praise praise prais

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    March 2, 2009 at 8:12 AM

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