The silver shadow,
casts on my pillow,
...the night breaks..
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Muse: The ... in everything
He sees the sun in the moon,
the breathless charm on the skin of eggs,
a prophecy in an ellipse.
the breathless charm on the skin of eggs,
a prophecy in an ellipse.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Muse: Thirst
God wills that He thirsts for souls.
What kind of god asks that He be loved?
What could we possibly have done to ever deserve Him
other than that He wills that His love, since He always loves first, be put to the test.
Yes, no other faith asks us to believe in a God, so omniscient, so benevolent,
that He himself can be exhausting, asking, thirsting for the most essential answer Man
has ever wanted from anyone, Do you love me? . When Christ says "I thirst" (one of his Seven Last Words), this is His fifth word. Perhaps one could see this to be the fulfillment of all the five books of the Law (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), that in fact, it is God who thirsts for us. Not the other way around. He then goes on to say, "It is finished" and "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.
What a strange and profound gift He leaves us. A request. That He is thirsting to be loved. And in that fifth word the entire question of our purpose and need is thus answered. God loved us first. Had he not, He would not have thirsted for us to love Him in return.
We are obsessed with the conundrum of whether God exists. And often, our understanding of God seems to necessitate that either He does something or we do something to prove His existence. But, God simply is. All that we do simply does not add or subtract to what God is. But when we do so, we are simply doing something in response to that first Thirst.
What kind of god asks that He be loved?
What could we possibly have done to ever deserve Him
other than that He wills that His love, since He always loves first, be put to the test.
Yes, no other faith asks us to believe in a God, so omniscient, so benevolent,
that He himself can be exhausting, asking, thirsting for the most essential answer Man
has ever wanted from anyone, Do you love me? . When Christ says "I thirst" (one of his Seven Last Words), this is His fifth word. Perhaps one could see this to be the fulfillment of all the five books of the Law (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), that in fact, it is God who thirsts for us. Not the other way around. He then goes on to say, "It is finished" and "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.
What a strange and profound gift He leaves us. A request. That He is thirsting to be loved. And in that fifth word the entire question of our purpose and need is thus answered. God loved us first. Had he not, He would not have thirsted for us to love Him in return.
We are obsessed with the conundrum of whether God exists. And often, our understanding of God seems to necessitate that either He does something or we do something to prove His existence. But, God simply is. All that we do simply does not add or subtract to what God is. But when we do so, we are simply doing something in response to that first Thirst.
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