We humans,
especially
those of us
in the Western World,
are a bunch of loves,
but do we ever
get all tangled up
in our heads.
Early on, and
very much from
the ancient Greeks,
we realized we can
"figure out"
A lot of modern,
and much current,
a touch of the
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get all tangled up
in our heads.
Early on, and
very much from
the ancient Greeks,
we realized we can
"figure out"
a lot
be
IN THE KNOW
a great deal.
a great deal.
Marvelous!
But we overdid it.
We tried to
capture in concept
that which is
beyond the reach,
certainly the realm,
of concept.
We absolutized our
relative, limited
We tried to
capture in concept
that which is
beyond the reach,
certainly the realm,
of concept.
We absolutized our
relative, limited
concepts.
The Church did it.
It dogmatized
The Church did it.
It dogmatized
concepts
to the detriment
to the detriment
of mystery
and the living of
the mystery that is
God.
The Enlightenment
and the living of
the mystery that is
God.
The Enlightenment
did it.
It canonized,
if not deified,
man's measures.
The Enlightenment was
a sixty-watt bulb
that thought it was
It canonized,
if not deified,
man's measures.
The Enlightenment was
a sixty-watt bulb
that thought it was
the sun.
A lot of modern,
and much current,
post modern,
philosophy, science,
art, psychology, culture,
and most of all,
our right now
philosophy, science,
art, psychology, culture,
and most of all,
our right now
spin out
with the cult of
"ME- ISM"
with the cult of
"ME- ISM"
are such.
They are
the arrayment
the emperor
doesn't have.
They leave people
They are
the arrayment
the emperor
doesn't have.
They leave people
naked to
huge swaths of
nothingness.
The overdo
of the rational
has gotten us into
troubles terrible.
In fact, it is plain,
old-fashioned idolatry.
We have erected
and worshipped
these gods of our
determinations.
They cannot and
do not hold up to
the mystery of what
"IS"
Existence
Reality
God
They fail and we fall.
Enter Einstein.
He sure was
"IN THE KNOW."
He could figure
nothingness.
The overdo
of the rational
has gotten us into
troubles terrible.
In fact, it is plain,
old-fashioned idolatry.
We have erected
and worshipped
these gods of our
determinations.
They cannot and
do not hold up to
the mystery of what
"IS"
Existence
Reality
God
They fail and we fall.
Enter Einstein.
He sure was
"IN THE KNOW."
He could figure
far, far, far out!.
And yet he
recognized
Reality,
And yet he
recognized
Reality,
What Is,
to be a
limitless
limitless
mystery.
He counselled
that we use
He counselled
that we use
our mind
as far as
as far as
it will go
and let it go
and let it go
at that.
Go home,
have supper
Go home,
have supper
rejoicing
in what we know
and knowing
in what we know
and knowing
we know
a speck of
the mystery
a speck of
the mystery
of what
"IS"
"IS"
in our
capsulized
confined
concepts.
When it comes to God
we can't grasp,
exhaust or define.
We can and we do
When it comes to God
we can't grasp,
exhaust or define.
We can and we do
experience
a touch of the
limitless Mystery
that is God.
That is our spiritual life.
We can and do articulate
a little, limited bit
of the experience.
We tool that expression
with simile, analogy,
metaphor.
"God is love."
1 John 4:8
We don't figure out God.
We live-love God.
We are "in" Love.
The only way
we know God
is the way
lovers know
each other.
"God may be
That is our spiritual life.
We can and do articulate
a little, limited bit
of the experience.
We tool that expression
with simile, analogy,
metaphor.
"God is love."
1 John 4:8
We don't figure out God.
We live-love God.
We are "in" Love.
The only way
we know God
is the way
lovers know
each other.
"God may be
reached and held
by means of love,
by means of love,
but by means
of thought never."
The Cloud of
The Cloud of
Unknowing
14th. Cent.
Spiritual Classic
"Remember,
mystery isn't something
you cannot understand -
it is something you can
endlessly understand!
There is no point
at which you can say,
'I've got it.'
Always and forever,
mystery gets you!"
Richard Rohr
The ancient Hebrews
had a word for
love making.
It was to
"Know"
14th. Cent.
Spiritual Classic
"Remember,
mystery isn't something
you cannot understand -
it is something you can
endlessly understand!
There is no point
at which you can say,
'I've got it.'
Always and forever,
mystery gets you!"
Richard Rohr
The ancient Hebrews
had a word for
love making.
It was to
"Know"
the other.
For them and for us
that's the only way
we know God -
in love making,
For them and for us
that's the only way
we know God -
in love making,
loving
God
neighbor
self.
When it comes to God
We're in Love
We're In the Know
as we get lost in a
skyscape at sunset,
as we hold a
sleeping baby,
as we flow with
Gregorian Chant,
as we mow an
elderly person's lawn,
as we soak in a hot bath,
a gentle wine at hand,
as we close the door
and mellow in
the embrace of Abba,
as we be and do
anything that is
LOVE-LY
What a
WHOLLY
HOLY
WOW
to be
IN THE KNOW
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Love to all.
God Bless,
John Frank
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