July 27, 2007
…and he strictly charged them that no one should know this. Mark 4: 41b
To renounce the fruits of one’s labors, to live in love with splendid indifference, the high irony of God: To Be, and not to demand, not to control…to allow to be in the full spectrum of possibility beyond plausibility, the blasphemy of pondering theodicy.
To move from small town through small town, from village to village—to be touched, to allow oneself to be touched and the power of one’s self seeps out through a posture of vulnerability.
And the wonder is just where in this bright, blue-faced world he might be safe. There is none, no absolute safety; there is only compassion. The he is everyone and every creature, the ribbon snake.
…and he strictly charged them that no one should know this. Mark 4: 41b
To renounce the fruits of one’s labors, to live in love with splendid indifference, the high irony of God: To Be, and not to demand, not to control…to allow to be in the full spectrum of possibility beyond plausibility, the blasphemy of pondering theodicy.
To move from small town through small town, from village to village—to be touched, to allow oneself to be touched and the power of one’s self seeps out through a posture of vulnerability.
And the wonder is just where in this bright, blue-faced world he might be safe. There is none, no absolute safety; there is only compassion. The he is everyone and every creature, the ribbon snake.
posted by Dafath at 10:49 AM
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