Andrew Lawson, M.D.

GOD

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”-Socrates

 

We live in a fast paced and extremely materialistic culture that has

consumed us.  We haven’t taken the time to examine our lives.

 

It is amazing to read the insights into marterialism garnered

from a 15th century cloistered monk:

 

"...The pursuit of money, power and sex draws us to accept what the world says we should want, but the feeling of emptiness that accompanies getting them often begets a deep aversion to them.  Sadly, though, such values are terribly addictive, and they usually win over a person so completely that he counts it a delight to be caught in a bed of thorns.  Such an unfortunate person neither sees nor tastes the sweetness of God...”-Thomas A Kempis

 

This is not the place to go into the details of my search for meaning;

this is just a rest stop for you to consider taking the time to start again

or begin for the first time your own personal journey or search.

 

I would challenge you to consider what you would have in a world without

God. If all that exists is our universe (matter, energy, time and space) then

where did it all come from? What is your ultimate purpose or meaning?

Is there any right and wrong? Where do we go when we die and what

is the ultimate fate of the universe?

 

“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man, which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God...”-Blaise Pascal

 

 

“...our heart is restless until it rests in you.” -Augustine