a long question

one more faithlessness!

one more faithlessness!

is it hope against oneself

against ones taste for self-destruction

against You and ev'ry peace offered

against prohibitions we rail against

and ev'ry drop of Life pouring

through our vows of repentance

against Your bottomless gift of grace

and all Love that is You

against The Against toward which we run

though its nothingness is obvious

even as we thrust ourselves against You

falling into wretchedness

mocking goodness as control

stumbling in our search for You, The Good?

O Most For Me and All

snatch us lest we fail again

and be against You and our all-against

again and again forevermore

*The Emerging Mystics(con't):

-I like mystery.  But I don't like secrets.

 Sylvia Fraser

-You put yourself through mental gymnastic so you can go to the performance with as clean a    psychological state as you possibly can.  But I actually cannot make a spiritual experience happen.

 Loreena McKennit

-I believe in God in probably the same way my dog does.

 Farley Mowat

-We're living on a a continent where we are obsessed with being in power, rather than being in love.

  Barry Lopez

-Some notions of divine creativity seem to be images of something that comes from above, with some  kind of magic wand.  I much prefer the idea that it comes from an earthly place that is full of  sexuality and sensuality.

 Nick Bantock 

-I read a lot of existentialist literature in the fifties...  One of its ideas was the concept of the absurd,  that things didn't make sense.  That is completely repugnant to me.

 Alex Colville

-Love is the basic building block.  It's your basic molecule.

 Carol Shields