_living each day*

.. beautiful phrases..

Friday, June 02, 2006

We are all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you've been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect that there's no right person, just different flavours of wrong.

Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. It isn't until you finally run up against your deepest demons- your unsolvable problems-the ones that make you who you truly are- that you're ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you are looking for.

You are looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the "right" wrong person- someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, "This is the problem I want to have."

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

-- Andrew Boyd
in Daily Afflictions

What if it were possible to find divine genes in Jesus' DNA?

Alex reclined in his seat and said, " You could well be right about Jesus getting his power through purely spiritual means. But if you're not and his divinity, as you call it, is in his genes, you still won't have compromised your beliefs. Either way, your faith is safe. "

"God could have passed his strength down spiritually, or, and this is what we don't know, Christ may have literally been God incarnate, God made flesh. So that as well as communing with his Father through prayer he could, just possibly, have been given something in his genes which gave him his powers- a touch of the divine if you like. "

"But just imagine for a moment that we could isolate what made him special and use it to help mankind. How could your God be against that? Isn't that what he put his Son on the world to do in the first place? Who knows? It might even be what he intended."

--The Miracle Strain
Michael Cordy

The ultimate irony is that cancer is about a cell's attempt to become immortal. This selfish search for immortality is what kills the rest of the body. And of course when the body dies, the cancer cells die with it.

-- The Miracle Strain

__pondering* 1:09 PM :)