Posts tagged God
what is the "givenness" of your life?
a givenness to the only human emotions that we can attribute to God
What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?
The only human emotions that we can attribute to God.
“God delights.
God is always rejoicing and doing so with a single and simple delight.
In fact, it is appropriate to say that love and joy are the only human emotions that we can attribute literally to God.” Thomas Aquinas
…so much more than Turkish delight.
I have a GIVENNESS NOW to the only human emotions that we can attribute to God.
a givenness to a God who might just as well do things slowly as quickly
What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?
A God who might just as well do things slowly as quickly.
“If evolution simply means that a positive thing called an ape turned very slowly into a positive thing called man, then it is stingless for the most orthodox; for a personal God might just as well do things slowly as quickly, especially if, like the Christian God, he were outside time.” G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
…have sons of apes evolved into sons of men or have sons of men transformed into sons of God?
I have a GIVENNESS NOW to a God who might just as well do things slowly as quickly.
a givenness to not keep virgin the secret of God
What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?
Not keep virgin the secret of God.
“It is not only true that humility is a much wiser and more vigorous thing than pride. It is also true that vanity is a much wiser and more vigorous thing than pride.
Vanity is social - it is almost a kind of comradeship; pride is solitary and uncivilized. Vanity is active; it desires the applause of infinite multitudes; pride is passive, desiring only the applause of one person, which it already has. Vanity is humorous, and can enjoy the joke even of itself; pride is dull, and cannot even smile.
Self is the gorgon.
Vanity sees it in the mirror of other men and lives.
Pride studies it for itself and is turned to stone.
One of the thousand objections to the sin of pride lies precisely in this, that self-consciousness of necessity destroys self-revelation.
A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism.
Thinking about himself will lead to trying to be the universe; trying to be the universe will lead to ceasing to be anything. If, on the other hand, a man is sensible enough to think only about the universe; he will think about it in his own individual way.
He will keep virgin the secret of God; he will see the grass as no other man can see it, and look at a sun that no man has ever known.” G.K. Chesterton, The Moods of Mr. George Moore
…to see the grass as other men see, and look at a sun that other men know.
I have a GIVENNESS NOW to not keep virgin the secret of God.
a givenness to a God who is not a white man
What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?
A God who is not a white man.
“The reason I believe so fervently in a mighty, active, communicating God who still does incredible things today is that I have seen a miracle close-up - me.
No more white Jesus.
Only Jesus.” Bill Reiser, They Called Me White Jesus
…only.
I have a GIVENNESS NOW to a God who is not a white man.
a givenness to no tenses in God
What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?
No tenses in God.
“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them.
He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say “seeing”? (there are no tenses in God) - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath’s sake, hitched up.
If I may dare the biological image, God is a “host” who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and “take advantage of” Him.
Herein is love.
This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves.” C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Simple present, simple future, simple past…
Present continuous, future continuous, past continuous…
Present perfect simple, present perfect future, present perfect continuous…
Past perfect simple, past perfect continuous…
Future…
“tense”.
Tense about tenses?
(…there are tenses in Ted.)
…there are no tenses in God.
I have a GIVENNESS NOW to no tenses in God.
