...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor
11.18.2014
God Is...
"God is nothing but Mercy and Love." --Thérèse of Lisieux
Get out your prayer beads. Say it over and over and over...
I feel like God (as revealed in Christ) is Justice as well as Mercy and Love.
Then again, it's possible that the concept of divine love includes and encompasses justice. And it's true that I have not read anything by Thérèse of Lisieux, so I may be missing the context of the quote.
Whatever its original meaning, it does work wonderfully as the sort of meditation that Richard suggests here.
She sufficed for her time.... As any Evangelical knows, "God is nothing but Free Market Fundamentalism."
ReplyDeleteGet out your singular media outlets and chant together " it's only private enterprise that saves us!".
I don't mean to open a theological can of worms, but do you at all see the juxtaposition of your comment and Dr. Beck's post?
ReplyDeleteI feel like God (as revealed in Christ) is Justice as well as Mercy and Love.
ReplyDeleteThen again, it's possible that the concept of divine love includes and encompasses justice. And it's true that I have not read anything by Thérèse of Lisieux, so I may be missing the context of the quote.
Whatever its original meaning, it does work wonderfully as the sort of meditation that Richard suggests here.
After a year of chronic illness, I struggle to believe it anymore.
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