truth may be glimpsed
the radical mystery—❤️
those moments when we suddenly know there is a God, about whom we “know” absolutely nothing—accessible to us and our ordinary, unmysterious lives... tend[ing] to destroy any spiritual disposition that does not have deep roots.” ― Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Faith is faith in the soul.
❤️To be truly alive is to feel one’s ultimate existence within one’s daily existence.
... neglecting the voices of women, who are more attuned to the immanent nature of divinity, who feel that eruption in their very bodies, theology has silenced a powerful—perhaps the most powerful—side of God.”
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... he [christ] appeared to the disciples walking to Emmaus after his death, who did not recognize this man to whom they had pledged their very lives... after sharing an ordinary meal and discussing the scriptures, had to vanish once more in order to make them see.
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Behind every urge to interpret is unease, anxiety.
All too often the task to which we are called is simply to show a kindness to the irritating person in the cubicle next to us...
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻My God my bright Abyss into which all my longing will not go
once more I come to the edge of all I know
and believing nothing believe in this.
🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁✔️life... forces... the existential crisis by which art—great art—is fully experienced.
... rather than getting slowed and clogged up in the drift-waste of ego/ stagnating in little inlets of despair, envy, rage... fluidity between mind and matter, self and soul, life and death experience stream clearly through some lives/ [having] to do with seizing and releasing as a single gesture...
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... owning an emptiness that, because you have claimed it, has become a source of light... wearing your [life as a] wound... that is steadily destroying it.” ✔️
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... anxieties that have become useful to us;
✔️as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction
✔️fuel for ambition
✔️a reflexive secular religion...
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... you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.
Spiritual effectiveness is determined by the amount of personal ego that is in play.
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out of what seems great friction may emerge a peace... [that] nourishes one’s notion of, and relationship with, God.
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Ephesians 6;14... our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then,
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... each person is in thrall to some lesser conception of ultimate truth and asserts not love but a lesson.
To finish a work of art is to be exiled from it.
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... the gasp of rot stabbed from the compost's lumpen living death is me...
... my war in a jar I shake you and shake you...
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Poetry [art] :... can carve a shape/give one’s loss a form and dimension so it might be loss/ not simply a hopeless haunting...for psychological, spiritual, or emotional pain... It can do these things for one person, or it can do them for an entire culture...
( Mark Twain is an example of this)
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... many loves fail because
Unconsciously [one links w/others [at the point of] weaknesses.
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How many women who are not mothers spend years mothering some mysteriously wounded man?
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the [difference between] wounds of Christ and the wounds of man;
human weaknesses only intensify each other. But human weakness plus Christ's weakness equals a supernatural strength
(shared weakness / cherished in common / unhealed Character defects in a 12 step meeting or a congregation intensify the rot of spiritual Enterprise/unity.)
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The meanings that God calls us to in our lives are never abstract...... the call itself is always composed of life... calling to life.
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doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit/faith [inactive] with the lives we are not quite living/God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.
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drifting through the days on a tide of tiny vanities/publication/ flirtation/ strong case made for some weak nihilism — nights all adagios and alcohol as my mind tore luxuriously into itself.
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under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-live at once protected me from and subjected me to... the fall into belief.
... if grace woke me to God’s presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence.
I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.
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life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including words such as "faith" or "belief".
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If God is not in the very fabric of existence for you, if you do not find Him (or miss Him!) in the details of your daily life, then religion is just one more way to commit spiritual suicide.” ― Christian Wiman
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... human weakness plus Christ's weakness equals a supernatural strength
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Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving, you don't need us~Wooden Ships
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Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.
Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.
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I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time
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There will be time to murder and create,And time for all the works and days of handsThat lift and drop a question on your plate...
~T. S. Eliot
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Poetry [art] requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline.
... to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry[art] , though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life; It's the discipline of "preparedness".
sometimes merely to talk honestly of God, even if it is only to articulate our feelings of separation and confusion, can bring peace to our spirits.
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... releasing yourself to speak of the deepest needs of your spirit is the fact that no other needs could be spoken of outside of that context.
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You cannot work on the structure of your life if the ground of your being in unsure.
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The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity.
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Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves.
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Pity;
is a projection... the mirror of your misery...
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... faith... requires radical, inviolable innocence.
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Matthew 19:14But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
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you don’t once pass through religious innocence into the truths of philosophy or theology or literature, any more than you pass through the wonder of childhood into the wisdom of age
we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed within the lives of others
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There is something I am meant to see, something for which my own situation and suffering are the lens...
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