Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Our

"our"
is the possessive form of 
"we"
as Jesus spoke 
"Father"
before he spoke to 
"us"

"we" 
keep speaking 
"mine"
as if deaf
 to anything
"ours"
including God belonging 
to anyone of
"us"

"we" 
are a word abandoned
stilled by the selective tribe
as if God's 
only for
"us"

the possessive form of 
"we"
embraces the uniquely form of 
"me"
and ev'ry form of
 "we"
pressuring the form
of 
"us"

thus God is 
"ours"
having Fathered 
"us"
and we are God's
as God is ours
as we are each others
'cause God parent's us
this day
and 
ev'ry day




*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  *Encounter - how I dislike that word!  A meeting of that kind is never an accomplished fact, but always still to come.

  *Is the Gospel only a mirror that reflects my own desires?

  *...you've (classical theologians) led people to believe that faith was simply a matter of accepting those truths. Sooner of later, we must be liberated from that notion of faith.

There is a healthy doubt that connives with authentic faith.  The path of doubt frees us from faith in our own ideas, for we are apt to make an idol of truth, pliable to the laws of a cultural logic.  But the truth, Pascal says, is not God.

  *The word is divine (use a capital "W" if you prefer) not because of the idea but the breath.  It's in it; my doubts are only in my head.  My doubts and I are both in God.  This hand that is writing, knows better than I; it reaches out toward communion, even when it rejects false comradeship. 

  *Those people in the service of a religious ideology that is mistaken for faith participate in the assassination of Jesus.

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