Nearer to Really

At its simplest, living by your religion is living in the 3rd person.

Do something good in your life and you thank your  God for what He has done for you.

See something good in somebody else and you can raise your religious fervour to make you amazed at what God has done with them/for them/ in them.

Don't give anybody any credit.

See something bad and, with enough effort,  you can see the Devil's work and the evil that He is.

And every flower, every sunny thought and every warm day, it's God again. God doing his great things.

For you. His children.

I'm only saying this as I bumped into one minute of a religious channel with some American pastors talking amongst themselves around a big rustic table.

But it struck me that all they were talking about is living by proxy.

Living by proxy isn't a good way to live your entire life.

It might be a good  way to install a few rules.

We all need a little rulebook every now and again. We can copy a few favourable traits in order to make is more resilient.

But at some point we need to grow up. Forget childish things.

Put away the dolls, retire the tooth fairy and  live with responsibility.

Believe me, I don't like it any more than you do, but we must own ourselves.

That has to be the way to live.

I'm not even going to mention the terrorist elements that will dedicate their repulsive  actions to their God. They may even credit their God with giving them the strength to act.

But I'm only mentioning religious terrorism in passing.

Really I'm talking about day-to-day living.

Living really. 

And living real.