I'm pretty sure Worship was the shortest chapter, and I highlighted a whole friggin bunch...
then I accidentally kept reading and so I had to make myself stop and go back and read again so I can figure stuff out.
I'm starting to be okay with the whole "you're never going to understand this"....
first of all- God is too great to fully understand, I'm fine with that. I'd rather him be that than something I can comprehend. ...it is like the mystic part to faith, you have to have it or there is nothing to strive to believe in. If I know all of the answers then what is the point?
I want to be inspired to believe in something, having questions is good- within reason....too many questions on my part was kind of messing things up for me.
I'm learning the good amount- I like it this way best anyway.
now- the last bit of the chapter I never got a chance to read.
Don makes a dead poets society reference: blah blah blah "poetry is not algebra, not songs on American Bandstand that can be rated on a scale from one to ten, but rather they are pieces of art that plunge the depths of the heart to stir vigor in young men and woo women"
...Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe.
^^^ accepting that I wont fully get God is fantastic, I am perfectly okay with that. Finally.
"There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this"
I pretty much got smacked with this realization after reading the next two chapters- but coming back and seeing what I had highlighted and thought while I was reading helped me to get all of this a lot easier.
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