The Big Rest

So I had my surgery yesterday, and therefore I am supposedly 'confined to my bed' for two weeks give or take. I had my nasal septum straightened and I had my inferior turbinates significantly reduced in size. They were ten times too big. Yeah, for like two weeks I thought my doctor had said my adenoids were ten times too big. But yeah all this stuff is up in my nose so I'm pretty nasty as we speak. So I'm going to go see if I can actually get some rest for the time being. Later!

A Common Ideal

I have been taught, and I believe the same, that God may be found in everything, everywhere, etc. One of the chief places I have found him is in society itself, very generally speaking. There have been many, many nations, peoples, tribes, and institutions throughout history. But there is one thing I have found in common throughout, again generally speaking. I do acknowledge that there are multiple, perhaps even many, exceptions to one part or another of this 'common ideal' I shall call it.
So I say, in general, the peoples and populaces have typically found the same things to be good, and upright; and the same things to be bad, and despicable. Consider greed, murder, rape, incest, hate; and charity, service, courage, love. There are many other actions/traits to be considered, but I will speak of one.
Honesty. My parents have taught that honesty is of the highest import, as many parents, teachers, and people have. It is important in every aspect of living. Business, love, life, etc. Occasionally honesty is expressed as a weakness perhaps, but even when lying you are still testifying that honesty is the higher character, because you are even then trying to appear as being honest. Honesty has value. It is a valuable characteristic.
Honesty and lying are both based on a higher and an often misunderstood concept. Truth. And I am about what is, not what is perceived. Truth is what everyone on this planet ever looked for. It is found in every question;'the search; is what many bad, and many good things have been the cause of. In some ways this, I think, is where my belief/understanding begins to differ from the general populace as I understand it to be. For many people that God snapped His fingers or waved His arms, and then something just was.
Earth, for example.
This, however, would defy truth. That something JUST is changed or different. Just being the keyword there. I don't know if he did snap His fingers or waved his arm(s), but I do believe that something happened or changed directly because of his action or inaction. In other words, I believe there is a 'scientific' explanation for every 'miracle' that ever was performed. And I still believe that God is God.
I nearly want to say that "for all sakes and purposes truth is God". But I do not feel this is correct, perhaps instead I'd say in the search of truth one will find God. I understand Him to be all knowing and so I would understand how a search for knowledge and truth might bring one to God's doorstep so to speak.I have many such thoughts and this is one way for me to share them. I finish for now with a quote and a small request. The quote:
'When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct you tongue.
Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered
when the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more.'
-from 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran (p.67)
And the request; please take this as how I mean it, not necessarily as how I in my poor wording may have misled.