Heart and rational mind
We have both the rational mind and the heart to reach deep inside one another and the world around us. To spurn either as unworthy would be a waste.
:- Doug.
Archive for February 8th, 2006
Healing my own divisions….
To my good friends–
I have a division in my thinking about the world. This division needs healing. It is a split of the skin between business people and the rest of persons. The healing is possible here: business people in their ads are often saying Notice me. I count. I’m important. In their decisions they are often saying I want to get ahead because I want safety and security, not to have to worry if I will life free next year or in retirement. There may be greed, but it grows out of these. They are human. They are stuck, in themselves. They need healing, too. Compassion is prescribed.
It’s perhaps a language issue. Since I have been in both worlds–business and caring, basic and unitary Christianity for instance–I am capable of working out the bridges. Do I want to? Is there enough to do without this bridge building work? Is the bridge perhaps not language so much as just meeting and getting busy–that is conversing?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Wind sm # 641
Footprints in the Windsm # 641
I belove a G-d who
sings to his children
coos and chortles
challenges them to grow
gives flowers and breaks into love ballads
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Why would God lie?
To my good friends–
The fossil record, the geologic record, the astronomical record all say this universe is about 14 billion years old. Some folks doing math on Biblical texts have concluded the true age is 5 or 10 thousand years. This raises the question, How can a God who is faithful, just, loving, and unchanging lie to his children? Would God deliberately mislead? Would God leave a record of the enormity of the depth, breadth and length of his work in time which was wrong? Why would God lie? What’s in it for him to keep his children at a distance?
:- Doug.
