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Wordless Word

By EM Posted on April 10, 2020 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with direct experience, God, loneliness, Tao
Wordless Word

I find I would rather apprehend the knowable unknowable than attempt to put Logos into words.

Some things are better lived than said.

“Some things are more important than words,” Marigold said to Guy. “Some things only shrink into little shells when you try to describe them.”

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Jesus Year: What Does It Mean for Christ to Live in Your Heart?

By EM Posted on December 1, 2014 Posted in God and the Tao, Mythognosis Tagged with consubstantiation
Jesus Year: What Does It Mean for Christ to Live in Your Heart?

Asking Jesus into your heart is a dead horse of a phrase that’s been beaten by, I don’t know how many clichés. It’s one of the dearest and perhaps most important ideas to have cemented itself into the vocabulary of evangelical Christianese. …

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Jesus Year: Resurrection

By EM Posted on April 20, 2014 Posted in God and the Tao, Mythognosis Tagged with consubstantiation, ontology, transformation
Jesus Year: Resurrection

One of the ideas I’ve always liked best about the story of Jesus’s resurrection is that he didn’t just die and then rise again after three arbitrary days. Rather, it’s that on an ontological level, Jesus had life itself within him. He …

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Jesus Year: Crucifixion

By EM Posted on April 19, 2014 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with pain
Jesus Year: Crucifixion

The other day we went for a drive toward Mount Hood. I was feeling sick, so I stayed in the car when the family got out to explore the woods in the snow. But they were gone a long time, so …

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Jesus Year: Spring Equinox

By EM Posted on March 21, 2014 Posted in Feel, God and the Tao Tagged with invocation, milestones, practice, transformation
Jesus Year: Spring Equinox

Today is the equinox. This weekend is my birthday, my Jesus year: I will be 33 years old. It occurred to me that I could spend this year trying to get to know him again (it’s been a while). I …

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Describe the Indescribable: Go

By EM Posted on July 25, 2013 Posted in God and the Tao, Parent Tagged with fear, God, love, magic
Describe the Indescribable: Go

The other night, King Sturdy wasn’t tired at bedtime because he’d had a late nap, and also because he was scared of the lion and the tiger in his room. I am not about to say, “There’s no lion.” That’s …

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I Don’t Go in for Hierarchy

By EM Posted on June 29, 2012 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with boundaries, debunking, hierarchy, power over, things I know to be true
I Don’t Go in for Hierarchy

I’ve been reading the first few chapters of Touching Heaven the last few days, and there’s something in it that sticks in my craw. In a word, it’s hierarchy. The book is about Orthodox Christianity, written by John Oliver (not …

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Self-assertion Started It

By EM Posted on June 29, 2012 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with boundaries, misogyny, mythology, power over
Self-assertion Started It

On page 11, the Oxford summarized the book of Genesis this way: “Genesis … contains two major parts: the primeval history … which tells how human self-assertion brought the world to the brink of destruction; and the history of Israel’s ancestors.”

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Ask Me if I Care

By EM Posted on January 28, 2012 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with disrespect, objectivity
Ask Me if I Care

This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. “The Apocalyptic Vision” …

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It’s Personal

By EM Posted on January 28, 2012 Posted in God and the Tao Tagged with God, love, metaphysics, ontology, personhood
It’s Personal

On page 12 of Going Home, Thich Nhat Hanh said this: When we ask, ‘Is God a person or is God not a person,’ we get lost. In fact, God is not a person, and God is not a non-person. There …

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If my children were fairy tale characters, they'd be King Sturdy and Shortshanks. I'd be the Master Maid. As for the mister, he'd be Boots of course.

 

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