Drifting Awake » God http://www.richardfarrell.com Ripples from a little-boat life Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 our notion of God… http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/05/our-notion-of-god/ http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/05/our-notion-of-god/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 17:40:46 +0000 Richard Farrell http://www.richardfarrell.com/?p=4055

our notion of God is a tool that shapes us as does any tool

(with thanks to Marshall McLuhan and Lewis Lapham)

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I no longer ask God to give me a different fate;
after all, for whom does S/he grant such appeals?

(with thanks to Czeslaw Milosz)

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beauty is a gift
God gives at the beginning
as S/he disappears into the world

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care is a human phenomenon, not a divine one

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the closer to the phenomena, the closer to God

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what does it mean to say that all things are possible in God?

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