Saturday, August 04, 2007
God is Love, Love is God, All You Need is Love, Goo Goo Ga-Joob
The other night, I dreamed ...
Dr. ER, me, Bird and her YankeeBeautrothed were sitting down to supper. I said:
"Ya know, I don't do this much at all, but I'm so glad we're all here together, I'd like to say Grace.
" ' Rub a dub dub. Thanks for the grub. Yay God. God, thank you. Thank you for being God. Thank you for your apparent patience with us anthropomorphizing You -- since it's all we know to do. We see You as a form of ourselves. Thank you for your Love. Thank you for your early Christian follower who wrote, "God is love." So, thank you, Love, for You. Because Love is here with us right now. Which means that You are here with us now. In the name of Jesus, our best example of your Love for us, Amen.' "
Keep the manlike God on the Big Throne. God seen like that is too small. I've been meditating on Paul's words as noted in Acts 17: 24-28:
"God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one [blood] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ "
I just love this: "that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being ..."
I suppose that God doesn't change, as it is said -- although I don't know why that should be the case. But our concepts of God change. They have to, as WE change.
What is your concept of God today?
--ER
Dr. ER, me, Bird and her YankeeBeautrothed were sitting down to supper. I said:
"Ya know, I don't do this much at all, but I'm so glad we're all here together, I'd like to say Grace.
" ' Rub a dub dub. Thanks for the grub. Yay God. God, thank you. Thank you for being God. Thank you for your apparent patience with us anthropomorphizing You -- since it's all we know to do. We see You as a form of ourselves. Thank you for your Love. Thank you for your early Christian follower who wrote, "God is love." So, thank you, Love, for You. Because Love is here with us right now. Which means that You are here with us now. In the name of Jesus, our best example of your Love for us, Amen.' "
Keep the manlike God on the Big Throne. God seen like that is too small. I've been meditating on Paul's words as noted in Acts 17: 24-28:
"God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one [blood] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ "
I just love this: "that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being ..."
I suppose that God doesn't change, as it is said -- although I don't know why that should be the case. But our concepts of God change. They have to, as WE change.
What is your concept of God today?
--ER
