Brent M Jones

Embrace Life's Randomness Brent M Jones

Our journeys through life follow unexpected paths. Sometimes, looking back offers clarity and understanding, while other times, you find yourself at an unforeseen junction, and it takes your breath away. When the unexpected happens, it can wonderful, challenging or both, yet the way you approach such events is key to your spiritual happiness and growth. Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If", could apply to many parents who are seeing their child set out to experience life. So much will happen. So much work was done to prepare for the journey. Special training on expected events and challenges were a part of the child's life growing up. The journey was looked on as an amazing adventure but a trip that could be full of the unexpected. It all came down to the word "if". What if things happened that were not expected?Fathers often advise a child to be good if you want to go to heaven. There is a chapter in this book titled, "Is the Soul Eternal?" The life's journey is for the long trip ahead. Why not consider the next life. Questions about what values are important for the journey are considered. Like George Bailey in the Christmas film, It's a Wonderful Life, sometimes the journey is amazing at the finish, routine and ordinary along the way, awful at times, and full of both goodness and challengesEmbrace Life's Randomness considers whether the unexpected is truly random and compares the traditional stoic determinist view of life with a view more accepting of randomness and free will.