11 thoughts on “Religion misses the Point – Now is All”
That’s the first time I’ve heard you use your “storytelling voice”, the one we hear when you read your poetry. Low, slow, sort of mesmerizing. It was interesting to see/hear the response to it. You said the room changed because the one guy got real, which was true (and that’s what happened in class last Sunday when I said I was an agnostic half the time), but it did the same thing when you dropped your tone a little and they HAD to listen a bit harder. Does that make sense? It was very interesting to watch.
Some of your words in this video made as much of an impression on me as the C.S. Lewis quote I wrote about for the Sandbox Challenge this week. “Living inside yourself rather than in your fiction… In the moment, in the stillness, we are powerful. There is no death there. Nothing can take us out of God’s hands there… When you’re not in the moment you’ve given away your power…” So much to think about there.
And your illustration about “trying.” I KNEW that’s where you were going, but had never thought about that. It made so much sense the way you talked about it in relation to self-doubt and pacifying ourselves. And “knowing God” vs. “knowing ABOUT God…” Well, that’s the Seeker’s journey. And I thought your words about what your name means related to that so well for what I’m writing about. You were right the other day. It kind of was along the same lines.
Geez, I feel like I ought to be paying them to audit the class! 😀 Awesome teaching, pardner.
It makes me very happy that it is communicating. My hope was that it could be a place to eavesdrop on that process and see these things talked about and experienced in plain language. And every once in a while something unexpected and miraculous happens. It is fun to be a part of that process. I think it is my form of jazz
Yes. There is a heart music to what you do. It’s easy to see that sometimes they don’t make it easy for you. 🙂 But you have a gift. I like the way you kind of go away for a minute and take in what they’ve said before you answer. You’re the third person I’ve known that reacts that way in conversation. The other two are pastors, too.
To know the truth is to know that He exist with-out one fraction of doubt. He makes Himself known to the desparate seeker who has doubted most of his life because the level of his despair had not touched death. He had only been given enough of God to pedal on the street corner, because that’s all he ever really desired to know. Then one day he placed himself on the Surgeon’s table and the individual parts of his existence were carefully separated by the Sword of His mouth. His flesh melted like wax and his mind, will and emotions vanished and all that was left stood face to Face. That day eternity devoured mortality.
“when there seems to be no way, He will make a way”
Exactly. The Creator is alive and real and present. Sometime it takes something traumatic to awaken a person to the difference between religion and the Maker. Thanks fir being here.
That’s the first time I’ve heard you use your “storytelling voice”, the one we hear when you read your poetry. Low, slow, sort of mesmerizing. It was interesting to see/hear the response to it. You said the room changed because the one guy got real, which was true (and that’s what happened in class last Sunday when I said I was an agnostic half the time), but it did the same thing when you dropped your tone a little and they HAD to listen a bit harder. Does that make sense? It was very interesting to watch.
Some of your words in this video made as much of an impression on me as the C.S. Lewis quote I wrote about for the Sandbox Challenge this week. “Living inside yourself rather than in your fiction… In the moment, in the stillness, we are powerful. There is no death there. Nothing can take us out of God’s hands there… When you’re not in the moment you’ve given away your power…” So much to think about there.
And your illustration about “trying.” I KNEW that’s where you were going, but had never thought about that. It made so much sense the way you talked about it in relation to self-doubt and pacifying ourselves. And “knowing God” vs. “knowing ABOUT God…” Well, that’s the Seeker’s journey. And I thought your words about what your name means related to that so well for what I’m writing about. You were right the other day. It kind of was along the same lines.
Geez, I feel like I ought to be paying them to audit the class! 😀 Awesome teaching, pardner.
It makes me very happy that it is communicating. My hope was that it could be a place to eavesdrop on that process and see these things talked about and experienced in plain language. And every once in a while something unexpected and miraculous happens. It is fun to be a part of that process. I think it is my form of jazz
Yes. There is a heart music to what you do. It’s easy to see that sometimes they don’t make it easy for you. 🙂 But you have a gift. I like the way you kind of go away for a minute and take in what they’ve said before you answer. You’re the third person I’ve known that reacts that way in conversation. The other two are pastors, too.
To know the truth is to know that He exist with-out one fraction of doubt. He makes Himself known to the desparate seeker who has doubted most of his life because the level of his despair had not touched death. He had only been given enough of God to pedal on the street corner, because that’s all he ever really desired to know. Then one day he placed himself on the Surgeon’s table and the individual parts of his existence were carefully separated by the Sword of His mouth. His flesh melted like wax and his mind, will and emotions vanished and all that was left stood face to Face. That day eternity devoured mortality.
“when there seems to be no way, He will make a way”
Exactly. The Creator is alive and real and present. Sometime it takes something traumatic to awaken a person to the difference between religion and the Maker. Thanks fir being here.
I couldn’t agree more…
Hey sugar
Love it when you call a girl Suger😎
Sugar
Its a southern thing 🙂
I know and it’s also rather sexy…😘