Day 149g: Every dogma’s Derring-Do … (September 25, 2019)
And then it was that I came upon the Black Fox United Methodist Church, where a tiny stone sculpture outside its front door – a sculpture that was so clearly man-made – quite ironically (and quite falsely as well, at least according to Jesus himself*) boldly proclaimed that “God did it” …
*“Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do, and in fact will do even greater works than these … If you truly love me, you will embody my commandments. And then the Father will provide you with an additional Advocate to be with you forever. And this is the Spirit of Truth, which those immersed in the world cannot know or receive, because they can neither see it nor honor it. And yet you will know it, because it will abide with you, and ever reside within you.” ~ via Jesus Christ (John 14:12-17)
“A sacred space is not a place to hide out or earn our own salvation. Rather, it is a place where we can re-cognize ourselves by recognizing the important role we play in the lives of all others … We all indeed real Saints in waiting, and should indeed regularly come together in true fellowship – not to acknowledge our mutual losses and failures and sorrows or announce our petty longings for comfort or absolution, but rather to love one another wholly & care-fully; to forgive each other recklessly and care for each other limitlessly and give to each other self-sacrificially … The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, and all-exhaustive. In truth nothing that seems solid or fixed ever is. And indeed, if you could stand even just slightly apart in time, how fluid and shape-shifting and ever-flowing your physical world would be known to be, with everything – literally everything – steadily melding & morphing into some other form waiting in the not so distant future – even crystal, even concrete, even stone, even you!” ~ inspired by Sherry Turkle, Wendell Berry & Mark Doty
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