Wednesday, 8/3/16
God, in the first reading, as he is bringing his people back
from captivity, said, “With an old Love I have loved you.”
I have just picked up a book called “Quest for the Living
God.” And that name’s implication that God must be searched for, seems to reject what Paul said about God in his address at the Areopagus, “He is not
far from any of us, for in him we live and move and have our being.
Elizabeth A Johnson, the author of "Quest for the Living God," laid down here three rules for that search. She said:
Elizabeth A Johnson, the author of "Quest for the Living God," laid down here three rules for that search. She said:
!. Know that he is so far above us that he is can’t be understood.
2. Know that no name for God can be taken literally.
3. Know that we still must keep trying out new names.
The Bible calls God our Father and Yahweh, and by many other
names, but I am more sure of myself when I approach God through nature and
science. Sitting out on my porch, I
consider how my body is composed ef of five trillion cells, with the core of each cell containing the DNA from which I could be cloned.
In the third volume of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Dante asked
Beatrice how, while everything in heaven was new to him, it all seemed somehow familiar.
Her answer was, “All things among themselves possess an order, and this order
is the form that makes the universe like God.”
In line with that, I like considering that simple element we
call Oxygen. It is everywhere, sustaining life, and every single mom of Oxygen has
its eight electrons orbiting its cell in the same patterns. It’s that way
because God has it that way.
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