Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 27, 2024 – Quote for the Day:
“When I was in grade school, I had lots of girlfriends. A few of them, usually in a roundabout way, actually found out how I felt about them! Most of them were ‘secret loves’ – that’s the way it was in the olden days. My buddies and I liked girls, but as preteens in the 1950’s, we couldn’t bring ourselves to tell them. We didn’t want to be rejected (and what human of any age does?).
Do you remember that game we used to play when we were kids? If my buddies and I wanted to know how a certain, special girl felt about us, without risking our ego by telling her personally, we would pick a daisy and begin to pluck its petals. As we plucked each petal we would chant,
‘She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not…’ This little game was said to have the power to reveal whether the object of our affection felt the same way about us as we did about them. It was a game about relationships. It sounds so silly and infantile now, but we really believed that the last petal on the daisy would give us some insight about the relationship we desired. Of course, if we didn’t get the answer we desired, then we would pick another daisy and start over. Legalistic religion has a lot in common with daisy picking and petal plucking.
Many of us play a similar game with God. We are convinced we can play games to make God like us, or make him like us more. We believe we can determine whether he loves us at all, or still loves us, on the basis of the daisy petals of our lives.”
Originally published in:
Unplugging from Religion – Connecting With God
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