And God said, Let there be Light
This is a response to some concerns posed about my previous post, I Asked for This Suffering. My friend said that he was wondering about my implying that God would be proud of Adam and Eve for eating of the tree. He added that "it would seem too much like "an evil game or ploy" …
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A dear friend sent me a message this morning, "Oh, Catherine! You are amazing to keep on going. It is such a mystery why the suffering isn't shared around more evenly. You inspire me." Bless her. This is what I have come to understand, and my belief is supported by my experience... and more so …
Last year, I learned that all of the loss I've experienced in the past 10-15 years has put me in a good starting position to adopt Jesus' kenotic path...enough to follow Him much closer than I could have before. This year, I'm learning that it has been through the numerous heart breaks throughout my life …
I'm reading What is the Bible by Rob Bell. (It's awesome.) In chapter 5, Bell starts dissecting a line from Paul: "G-d made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment--to bring unity to …
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the falling of snow... ...has a large muffling capacity, like the sound of one hand clapping, it holds the senses still and enlarges the heart. One expects to hear the steady constant falling of snow flakes, just as one would expect to hear the voice of God, but both reach us at a frequency …
"—the good news of Jesus’ own message—is that there is a way of being that moves beyond both secular and religious conventional wisdom. The path of transformation of which Jesus spoke leads from a life of requirements and measuring up (whether to culture or to God) to a life of relationship with God. It leads …
...so writes a friend. I believe I am beginning to understand this. I add... God and I, therefore, are not beings, but are Being... together. You, and God, and I are not beings, but we are Being. All of us are not beings, but rather we are all Being...all of us...even 'them.'. All of it …
"We are all made up of yearning and light" - Mark Nepo
I seem to fluctuate between a sense of God as 'all of it' and then a few moments later I am aware of a yearning to be closer or more drawn in...or drawn out. My fluctuations in appreciation are as subtle as breathing. Somewhere in my distant past I heard an analogy of God to …
