Making Sense of a Senseless Loss

Dudes and Dudettes: We are all (it seems) obsessed with the senseless loss of Robin Williams. If anything good could come from this it would be that folks who are in need of help will seek it out and get it.

But let's cut to the chase. We gotta get to the root cause of so much of the deadly angst in modern day life. And the root cause is that so many of us have disconnected ourselves from the root of our being: disconnected from the essence of living, if you will. We're all a bunch of stinking narcissists. There is nothing bigger in our lives than ourselves. We've fired God. 

Here is a quote seen in a discussion in one of the pastor sites. See what you think:

In a letter to E. Stanley Jones, the great Austrian psychologist Carl Jung wrote:

    Those psychiatrists who are not superficial have come to the conclusion that the vast neurotic misery of the world could be termed a neurosis of emptiness. Men cut themselves off from the root of their being, from God, and then life turns empty, inane, meaningless, without purpose. So when God goes, goal goes. When goal goes, meaning goes. When meaning goes, value goes, and life turns dead on our hands.

Jung also saw this evil within himself. He said that the man who used psychology to look behind the scenes of his patient's lives must also use it more especially to look behind the scenes in his own life. If he does not do this, says Jung, he is merely an "unconscious fraud."

(http://www.raystedman.org/new-testament/ephesians/darkness-of-mind)

Have you done that, bucko? Cut yourself off from the root of your being? Too cool or good modern or too whatever for this God business? God didn't go anywhere. Neither has the Christ. They're still reaching out. Reach back! Do it! Do it now!

This is the Voice of One.