09/23/2022 – Youtube link: “Religion and Personal Destiny” Jordan Peterson visit to Franciscan University of Steubenville.
I post this with prayer that fellow souls will listen in: One hour here and another challenge: clicking through the ads. We have to suffer somewhat in order to realize the blessing… Fr. Dave, the first Franciscan alumnus president of Franciscan U., and Jordan together were too much for me, I couldn’t keep up with my notes, a drink of water from a fire hose.
If pain is undeniable real and if the paradoxical pathway to less suffering is more suffering, does that make it even more real? And does it not point to the cross and the resurrection. As Jordan posits early on: “What is the Spirit of God? Is it in fact what manifests within us in opposition to the tyranny of the Devil and his minion? Stick with it; I believe it raises the curtain on God’s absolute layers, a peeling of the onion. More paradox: Listen to Jordan’s story on Moses leading the people through the desert.
“To whom much is given , much will be expected.” (Luke 12:48)
Soli Deo Gloria!
Your brother in Christ,
Jimmy