I just went to a neat website (http://planetmaker.wthr.us/#) and made a planet. I took a screen shot of it and included it above. Neat, huh?
There are a lot of different options, you can add moons and rings and mess with the atmosphere. You can make the planet flat if you would like to.
One of the things that stood out most to me is that the only green planet was Earth. Earth with plants and trees. All the others were blue or gray or whatever but Earth had green and it made that green so beautiful amid the others.
I think its sort of that way when we tell lies. (The point of my post isnt to point fingers so please dont get scared away by the topic.)
When we tell lies we create our own reality. Say we never went to a concert with a friend but we say that we did. Say that becomes the truth to us, that is our reality.
Of course this other person has no idea that we supposedly went to the concert, so there is a crack in the story.
We can keep this up, keep piling up the lies into mountains but eventually we step away from the story and see that there is so much missing from this world. A lot that doesnt add up.
And at least for me it makes God's world, it makes the truth, it makes the real reality that much purer and more beautiful.
Maybe its weird to talk about telling lies, maybe its taboo. But I just think that the world I create in my mind is not a happy one. In my mind things might be good, I might try to create a better world in my head.... but its never really fulfilling. There are cracks in it.
I recently watched Moana and part of the story is that she adds a stone to a pillar of stones when she becomes the chief of her family. Its like each lie is a stone we add to the weight on our back. Stones that in this case dont really belong. We can always choose to add more stones but it will just make things heavier in the long run, more weight on our sholders.
I like the planet I made on that site. Its a neat one. I am even kinda proud of it. But I dont think it can stand against the beautiful blue and green Earth that was created far before I tried to create my own version.
There are a lot of different options, you can add moons and rings and mess with the atmosphere. You can make the planet flat if you would like to.
One of the things that stood out most to me is that the only green planet was Earth. Earth with plants and trees. All the others were blue or gray or whatever but Earth had green and it made that green so beautiful amid the others.
I think its sort of that way when we tell lies. (The point of my post isnt to point fingers so please dont get scared away by the topic.)
When we tell lies we create our own reality. Say we never went to a concert with a friend but we say that we did. Say that becomes the truth to us, that is our reality.
Of course this other person has no idea that we supposedly went to the concert, so there is a crack in the story.
We can keep this up, keep piling up the lies into mountains but eventually we step away from the story and see that there is so much missing from this world. A lot that doesnt add up.
And at least for me it makes God's world, it makes the truth, it makes the real reality that much purer and more beautiful.
Maybe its weird to talk about telling lies, maybe its taboo. But I just think that the world I create in my mind is not a happy one. In my mind things might be good, I might try to create a better world in my head.... but its never really fulfilling. There are cracks in it.
I recently watched Moana and part of the story is that she adds a stone to a pillar of stones when she becomes the chief of her family. Its like each lie is a stone we add to the weight on our back. Stones that in this case dont really belong. We can always choose to add more stones but it will just make things heavier in the long run, more weight on our sholders.
I like the planet I made on that site. Its a neat one. I am even kinda proud of it. But I dont think it can stand against the beautiful blue and green Earth that was created far before I tried to create my own version.
