Sunday, 30 October 2011

What We Think Is What We Are, What We Are Is What We Think

'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and  the life was the light of  men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not.'

St. John Ch.1:1-5  King James Version of the Bible

AND ALSO ...

'The Holy Trinity as model of supreme love and interpersonal communion, and the Son of God, who comes, becomes a man and goes to sacrifice.'

[Dumitrescu 1992,186] [p. 25, 'Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation', Miroslav Volf, Abingdon Press, 1996]

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord ...
He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream ...
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.

'Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.'
1 Corinthians

When we leave aside all those starched ideas of God presented to us over the years; all those self-made and self-perpetuating projections, ... the fixed, without reflection, perceptions, ... The God made in man's own image, .. of the Victorian patriarch or the slave-master, the psychotherapist always looking for those edges and quirks of personality, which bespoil our ultimate perfection, if we leave behind the man in the sky who watches our every move, the high judge; the passer of sentences, indeed all the personifications, the ....

And we just look at the verses above, and think of the teaching there, which is essentially to think of ourselves and where we are, how we are, this here and now, with love. 
The unknown, the unfathomable, ... is, if we let it be, even make it be, love. And it does change things, ...

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