Gaze

Gaze

'til your eyes collapse

tired

and near blind

straining to catch a glimpse

of the Light

roamin' through the dark clouds

havin' fun

Gaze

 as if God were

beck'ning Life to seep

like trickles struggling

to find a gap in the abyss

Gaze

like the prophet seeing Nothin'

beyond nothing

where Fire kindles lightly

and the Blaze dances bright

Gaze

till you fall in death

hope-hungry

and tunnel-visioned

sighting Something

beyond your organs might

Reflections of Alan Jones:

  -The vision of humanity provided by the  doctrine of the Trinity wages war against any reductionist view of human beings.

  -Our mistake, and it is a tragic one, is our finding "normative personhood only in the human individual."  We make the individual instead of the community the norm.  In Kunkel's terms we choose the isolated ego over the real Self.

  -Soul making can therefore be described as the liberating movement from being individuals to becoming persons.  The doctrine of the Trinity (or better, the very power of the Trinity) begins to come alive for us when we can say with all honesty, "I cannot be me without you, and we cannot be us without them.

  -The doctrine of the Trinity is, when properly understood, political dynamite.

  -Communism and Capitalism come to mind in the political realm, with their twin sins of envy and greed.  Both are enemies, in their extreme form, of the development of persons.  Both are soul destroyers rather than soul makers.  Catholicism and Protestantism come to mind in matters of religion.