Other Experiences of an English Language Teacher

  As you have already seen, in this blog I write also about our father God, who has dad and mom’s love to us. To each one of us.  And for me – and many people alike – his existence is almost evident, for we firmly believe in him and talk to him – and with him – at any moment.  It’s so also when you think that he exists, because somebody must have made all this, this wonderful world, and each person. And the universe, which is unfolding itself on NASA’s last discoveries.  Also because we may have seen John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) and there ensues the idea of one God, after each person’s thirst for plenitude and happiness, and family.  When you admit his existence, even more, when you treat him personally, well, then, everything makes sense, and you may feel satisfied. As well life’s pains and sorrows have sense.  Otherwise if we suppress God, as Paul Sartre did, then all ends up without meaning.  Well, faith is a gift. A gift by him, but one every...

  So we have the premise that God exists. And that’s something rational, I mean, God is something you can reach through reason. At the same time it is not something evident – otherwise there would be no atheists nor agnostics. Thus God is not something evident, but nearly so for people who try to live with him by talking to and with him. God is not something, but someone.  Have you ever thought about what is there after this (short) life? I know you have, because everyone wonders about that.  Have you noticed human thirst for plenitude? For love? For unconditional love? Mountains of movies and novels tell about that love – who has not promised eternal love to the loved person? The world has plenty of Romeos and Juliets.  There must be something else after this life.  Man is free, we’ve stated. And responsible, at the same time and inseparably. And now think of all good that a person does in his or her lifetime. Or evil they may do. And when you are called to die...

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  Do you ever think of life sense or meaning? I mean, what are we here in this world for? I presume you do, you ask about that, for everyone does.  If you have a transcendent view of life, much better, and you’ll easily find that meaning, that Why are we here?  And we must consider God as our creator, and our father. And we have to behave well, for him and his glory, to please our father.  On every person you can think of finding a trace of God. Man and woman are a mystery ultimately. You cannot reach all they mean. Man and woman are unreachable ultimately. And furthermore if you consider their biographies. Man and woman are not just evolved animals. Something else. Much else.  To consider things that way may be helped by thinking. And reading good literature. Most classics are good literature. It’s what best writers have thought of. An example? The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni. Also reading good essays. If you’re a teacher I recommend Carlos Cardona’s Ética...

  I was thinking of basic things about ourselves.  We are what we do. And what we think of. Man is free. Ultimately free. And we are the habits we try to accomplish.  Also we are what we read. It seems essentially good to read good literature. Classics. The ones in accordance with human dignity, so most of classics. And good literature, as I said.  And we ought to dedicate some daily time to reflecting. Basically we should do things in accordance with human dignity. To reflecting I said. And don’t tell me you don’t have time. We have the same twenty-four hours a day as everybody else has. Ultimately.  Once somebody asked Saint John Paull II if he had free time. All my time is free, he answered. Also one cardinal told a reporter that that Pope was a very dangerous man. And that journalist asked why. And the cardinal replied, “He trusts God totally”.