Thursday, June 19, 2008
'The Final Secret' -- 'God Groks'
"The final secret, I think, is this: that the words 'You shall love the Lord your God' become in the end less a command than a promise.
"And the promise is that, yes, on the weary feet of faith and the fragile wings of hope, we will come to love him at last as from the first he has loved us -- loved us even in the wilderness, especially in the wilderness, because he has been in the wilderness with us.
"He has been in the wilderness for us. He has been acquainted with our grief. And, loving him, we will come at last to love each other too so that, in the end, the name taped on every door will be the name of the one we love.
" 'And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you rise.'
"And rise we shall, out of the wilderness, every last one of us, even as out of the wilderness Christ rose before us. That is the promise, and the greatest of all promises."
-- Frederick Buechner, in "A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces" (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984).
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"Thou art God. God groks."
-- Valentine Michael Smith, the Man from Mars, in Robert A. Heinlin, "Stranger in a Strange Land" (numerous editions.)
--ER
"And the promise is that, yes, on the weary feet of faith and the fragile wings of hope, we will come to love him at last as from the first he has loved us -- loved us even in the wilderness, especially in the wilderness, because he has been in the wilderness with us.
"He has been in the wilderness for us. He has been acquainted with our grief. And, loving him, we will come at last to love each other too so that, in the end, the name taped on every door will be the name of the one we love.
" 'And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you rise.'
"And rise we shall, out of the wilderness, every last one of us, even as out of the wilderness Christ rose before us. That is the promise, and the greatest of all promises."
-- Frederick Buechner, in "A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces" (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984).
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"Thou art God. God groks."
-- Valentine Michael Smith, the Man from Mars, in Robert A. Heinlin, "Stranger in a Strange Land" (numerous editions.)
--ER
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"Love God!"
Depends on you view of God.
If God is a being, and entity it means one thing.
If God is prime source/mover of everything that means something else.
If God is out there somewhere, it means on thing.
If God is here, in and of everything, always, then it means something much more magnificent.
In one focus, it is something you do, in the other it is something that you are.
Once I was challenged on this premise with the concept of God's mosquito. Indeed I love God as he is in and of the mosquito, and I will apologize in prayer as I squash the little blood sucker bitch that tries to take my blood.
When it comes to mosquitoes, ticks, tigers, and Nazis I plead hypocrisy.
Depends on you view of God.
If God is a being, and entity it means one thing.
If God is prime source/mover of everything that means something else.
If God is out there somewhere, it means on thing.
If God is here, in and of everything, always, then it means something much more magnificent.
In one focus, it is something you do, in the other it is something that you are.
Once I was challenged on this premise with the concept of God's mosquito. Indeed I love God as he is in and of the mosquito, and I will apologize in prayer as I squash the little blood sucker bitch that tries to take my blood.
When it comes to mosquitoes, ticks, tigers, and Nazis I plead hypocrisy.
ER!
Are you reading Stranger in s Strange land now!?!?
Cool!
Did you get the unredacted version?!?
Im all a-twitter! On pins-and-needles to see what you think of it!
Are you reading Stranger in s Strange land now!?!?
Cool!
Did you get the unredacted version?!?
Im all a-twitter! On pins-and-needles to see what you think of it!
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: 8:45 AM
Hidy, Teresa! Yep. I got the uncut original. I gotta say: I read very little fiction. I'm glad I'm reading "Stranger." It is way cool. :-)
It is the only piece of fiction that has had a lasting impact on my spirituality. Glad to hear you are reading it.. drink deeply brother.. thou art God.
Holio
Holio
Yeesh. I just got past the part where they're at the Fosterite Church. I sense Wrongness, too. I did not grok. ... Made me queasy, actually.
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