Slice Of Heaven

i recently watched a short video in my physics class which spoke of Farraday, the scientist who discovered the battery and electromagnetism. this video mentioned briefly that he was a sandemanium which is a sect of Christianity that takes every word in the bible literally (an aspect which many of today's self proclaimed Christians lack) and he as a scientist dedicated his life to the understanding of metaphysics and the world in general for he did not go into science for the money but for his beliefs (which i quite like about his character) he effectively believed that everything that exists in the world was and is being created by god.
on top of that note my brother Sam sent me over a few books to read (thanks for that!) the first i read was the short but very intense "the great divorce" by C.S Lewis. i finished that in just over an hour (at 140 pages long) the particular part that stuck in my mind is when a ghost was having a conversation with what Lewis described as "solid people" and the ghost was the mother of a boy who was making his way up the mountain (the metaphorical stature for the journey to heaven in this case)
the mother said to the solid person (these solid people are the ones who made it up the mountain and were sent down to encourage more ghost's to make the journey) "but he's my son, this isn't fair i want him to come back with me" the person replied with "but he is god's son, you may have bore him yourself into the world, but the world is no longer of any significance to us here. It is god who crafted him and shaped the person is." (something along those lines) this made me think very vividly about exactly how God See's our lives (in a contextual sense.)
another part of the book that stuck in my head was when someone said
"you get attached to the world because the images you paint down there are glimpses of heaven, you long for the full picture. if you were to paint a picture of our scenery it would have no effect for we know we are here already"
i feel it's good to reflect on book's this way because it gives you a better understanding of the intentions of the author (one good thing i have grasped from our education system :P)

reflections:
i think in a sense the artists of this world are trying to fill a hole inside themselves, they are catching glimpses of heaven in our planet but are unable to identify them as that (tell me how many christian painters can you name?) people without God in their life are constantly trying to fill that hole with something whether it be money,cars,loved ones (or supposedly loved ones) or just flash accessories.
i would know as i went through this phase on a smaller scale. i would go shopping with the money i have learnt and buy almost anything that tickled my fancy, at the end of the day i could find small satisfaction in the things i bought but when i got into bed that night i felt no different, i didn't feel a sense of accomplishment and in some cases it made it worse because i could identify what i was doing. i now face a a case where i still have these things (slowly selling them off) and they haunt me in some sense.
i think what people tend to forget is that old saying
"money can't buy happiness"
this phrase always tickles my thoughts and more and more i am thinking that maybe it is a christian that said that? i think alcohol,drugs,money,cars and all the petty pointless accessories to our life are all just a way to blur a vision of heaven.
in a more metaphorical sense i would say that drunkenness not only blurs our vision of the world (literally) but also grips the integrity we have of ourselves, it takes a hold of our self esteem and drags us down to the ground (literally too)
to conclude this part of the reflection, i think we all need time to ourselves.
Someone once said to me
"thinking is biological, just like sugar in a diabetics diet, too much and too little is damaging to us" i think this is a perfect reflection on what I'm trying to say, i know personally too much time alone will leave you very down and unenthusiastic about life in general, but on that note i think it's important for us to find out the healthy does of thinking for us individually and take time to ourselves to do just that, think.
sit down once every day or even every week and just think.
also on that note Sam once told me
"thinking is good, never stop questioning everything"

now to the reflections on the video:
i think that Farraday has an aspect to him that a lot of us are lacking as Christian's, we need to take into consideration what our modern day scientist's are telling us as they are often command of someone with a lot of money and I'm sure we all know that with great wealth comes great deception. Farraday took science as a career because he firmly believed that god created and shaped every aspect of the world, from our free will and beliefs of chemistry right down to the blades of grass under our feet, i believe this to be a very admirable quality of Farraday.
i take a good deal in this belief to as the bible tells us that God did create this world and in taking that in i think it's important that we remember the aspect of the world. that word world includes everything and everyone on our planet, it goes from the depths of the earth to the clouds, it includes every inch of our physical and even mental world.
i really don't have much else to say (in other words i have slightly lost my train of thought, i like to say in a hysterical sense that "my train of thought got hit by the mount Ruapehu lahar!")

to conclude this post i think that we need to have healthy doses of thinking at least every week.
not only to get a grip on our own reality but on the reality that God wants us to be in.
essentially we should not be living the life we please for, but the life that god desires for us.

thanks again for reading