So we all agree that we all have a dash. What next?
A lot of the comments on the first post talk about God, and serving, and church, and purpose, and lost loved ones – but what about where our dashes come from.
Let’s back up a little and think about our dashes and what or where they come from.
Does it (our dash, our life) just happen?
Were we given our dash?
Why do you believe that?
How does that belief affect what you do with your dash?
13 responses so far ↓
Nick // October 12, 2007 at 11:54 pm |
Life is not incidental, it is not random. Life in its purest is a gift, one that ought not be wasted on filling up our wallets or empty desires. Although a dash is static, we are living, loving, hurting, conscious creatures. What we do today follows us into tomorrow, and ultimately, into eternity. Knowing that I am not here by chance helps me live each day fully, as opposed to living a full life and having nothing to show.
bruce1975 // October 13, 2007 at 2:34 am |
Your dash just happens. It’s the circle of life. You can’t change it. You must live it. The average person can look at that & get depressed & do nothing with their dash. That’s not the point. What you’re doing with your dash IS important. Life is not fair, Life is often screwed up. But that’s a constant, you can count on that. With that said, we must strive to make our dash important, even though we have to deal with what we got.
Who knows where our dash comes from? Who cares? Do I care how the dollar is made? No, I accept it & give it back to “the man” (along with 14.9%). I don’t care how the semiconductor is made, I’m just glad it’s was made, for human kind, for everyone.
This is a good question. Maybe with all our input combined, we can achieve a higher level.
Go Raiders!
B75
Vinny the Armenian // October 14, 2007 at 4:41 am |
I understand that if something has no mass time does not influence it (physics: mass–time equivalence or relationship – look for the definition of time, photons, circlon theory, relativity theory, etc). Now, if time does not affect massless (weights nothing) objects and based on the premise that the spirit is massless (also assuming that the spirit exists -btw, modern science has not been able to verify if the spirit has mass or not), it is logical to conclude that the spirit is always there, it never cease to exist.
Now I wonder, what happens to the spirit after leaves its housing? Where does it go? I has to go somewhere, where?
I assume my spirit (if I have one) will remember who he is (or was?). I am concerned about this.
Anybody who is alive just by nature has thought or will think about this in his or her lifetime (I am now -again, after watching the dash presentation).
So, how can I certainly know that what I do with my dash (life) today will have an impact on where my spirit will reside in the future when it leaves my body?
And, where will I (my spirit) be?
If I had more time or money I would probably pay and or spend time in order to get the answer to these questions.
Thanks for “listening”
VTA
Mia W // October 14, 2007 at 8:02 pm |
I was fortunate enough to be created. My mother had about a million eggs> and I was fortunate enough to be fertilized and hatched. Babies are miracles. Life is miraculous. Unfortunately we human beings have to be born with the sin nature. Fortunately we have the saving grace of our creator through the sacrafice of his son Jesus our Christ. Life is surely about experiences. He loved us first.
InHIM // October 15, 2007 at 1:38 am |
Our dash and better said does it have meaning?
Or what is the meaning of life(dash)?
Every philosophy that we live by has to answer this question, which is more every philosophy has to answer 4 questions:
Origins, meaning, morality and destiny. This includes atheism.
When those questions are answered, then your DASH will not only make sense but it will have meaning.
Brian Eberly // October 15, 2007 at 3:39 pm |
James 4:14 says, “…What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
This life we are given is a gift from God. He also offers us another gift. The gift of salvation. It is free for the taking (Romans 6:23). God invites us into a wonderful relationship with Him. When we are living our lives with Him, He turns the dash into an incredible experience. An experience characterized by joy and one that attracts others to Him.
Have you accepted His invitation?
Ray // October 15, 2007 at 6:29 pm |
One definition of the word Dash is to hurry, or rush.
Seems like there’s a lot of that going on these days…
Do you remember when, as a child, you’d look up at the clouds and see faces and animals, and things like that?
When’s the last time you slowed down long enough to do that?
Here’s an idea – the next time you speak with someone you don’t know, take the time to look them in the eye, and smile – you might be one of the only people they encounter today who takes the time to do that…
Let’s all slow down a little bit… ’cause life goes by too fast…
….When’s the last time you slowed down long enough to consider your dash?
bruce1975 // October 15, 2007 at 4:08 pm |
Ray,
That is really cool. We are dashing around here and there and the very thing we do describes our lives on our epitaph in one simple line… a dash.
I’m going to have to think about that and not ‘dash’ so much.
B75
Wayne // October 15, 2007 at 4:12 pm |
Ray,
great comment, and is life going fast or what. It used to drag in school… “when is the bell going to ring?” then in my job I didn’t really like… “when am I going to get out of here” Now I have a job I really like, I have a family with 2 kids, a great wife and sometimes at the end of the day I wish I could turn it back a few hours just to stay a little while longer.
Dosson // October 18, 2007 at 2:57 pm |
Patience is a fruit of the Spirit, if this is an outreach to the “unsaved”; note, the unsaved have not yet received Patience. They may be dead and in Hell before ‘Dash’ gets any point whatsoever across or they even finish a bottle of free water or get to wonder who made their toilet so fresh and what makes that person so different.
‘Dash’ not false doctrine, not evangelism, not anything except a question that as I remember was often asked in bars. ie. What are you doing these days?
Be real, Give them Truth, Preach the whole counsel of God! Not bits and pieces!
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Colossians 4:5
Tera // November 30, 2007 at 10:25 am |
God gives us the dash BUT it is up to us to ask HIM what he wants us to do with it.
Dawn Marie // November 30, 2007 at 3:58 pm |
I guess we could use the dash in our lives to be focused on self, and satisfying ourselves throughout life, or we could live in a way that brings the most JOY: focused on the Lord and loving Him with all of our heart, mind and soul, and loving others as He has loved us! I use to live for me not really knowing that this was the case until I met Jesus and realized the incredible life in His Spirit! Nothing in this world compares to knowing Him and making Him known. There are so many lonely people in this world without hope that need to know just how much the Lord loves us and desires to give us an abundant life in Him. Nothing compares to taking the pain that we have (I have multiple sclerosis) and using it for His glory by encouraging others in the Lord and His love. “2 Cor 1:3-6
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.”
I thank the Lord Jesus for His example to me in suffering with the best promise being that glory follows suffering and the fact that He is with me through it all molding me into His image each moment of this pilgrimage. With the pain of this life is the GAIN OF KNOWING HIM, JESUS, WHO LOVES ME AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR ME THAT I MAY LIVE WITH HIM NOW AND FOREVER…the meaning of my dash will hopefully be that I gained Christ and the power of His resurrection and the depth of His love for me and all who believe. Gal 2:20-21
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
NKJV
Gal 2:20-21
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
NKJV
Dawn Marie, Daughter of the King
ADAM GRACIA // February 15, 2008 at 2:47 pm |
There is absolutely a Dash giver without any doubt or need for further discussion. I am living proof that dashes do not just happen, I am walking talking physical evidence.