9-19-21 You CAN Become the Person God Created You to Be!

<p>Second in the series: Some straight talk about the class formation and core principles dating back to the founding of the Fellowship Class 36 years ago. </p> <p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45465/9-21-21_Cross.jpg" alt="" width="274" height="517" /></p> <div> <p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt;">FRAN AND DON'S THlNGS TO PONDER</span></strong></p> <h1>from Fellowship Class teaching, September 2021</h1> <p>From Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning:</p> <p>"When we cannot change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves!"</p> <p>"The last of the human freedoms we have is how we respond to any given set of circumstances [no matter how dire!]."</p> <p>"Those who have a 'why" to live can bear with almost any 'how."</p> <p>From Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith: (what we called "Big G, little g"):</p> <p> </p> <p>What he described as God or the god of your life is whatever is "the object of ultimate concern in your life ....</p> <p>which promises <strong>total fulfillment</strong> and offers <strong>complete satisfaction</strong></p> <p><em>even</em> <em>if</em> all else in your life goes away."</p> <p>And so....who, Who or what, What is the God or god of your life? (That's easy to name, if you'll just be completely honest about what in your life makes you completely happy even though it/they are all you have.)</p> <p>Our faith demands all of us to be centered on it- body, mind, soul, spirit -now and forever, our emotions and feelings, both conscious and unconscious, ego, superego, etc. - and encompasses our decisions, choices, behaviors, promises, and follow-through - with total fulfillment and complete satisfaction.</p> <p>Who/what is the God/god of your life right now? And do you live out that ultimate concern each and every day?</p> <p>From Leon Kass on the meaning of God's word "good" in Genesis 1: "A being is good insofar as it is fully formed and fully fit to do its proper work...Precisely in the