Who?

God is me
But I am not God.

I AM is I
But I am not IAM.

The Blind

Isaiah 29:18; 35:5; 42:6-16; 43:1-28; 59:1-21; Luke 4:17-21; John 6:63

Creation began with the Word of God by the Spirit of God (Genesis 1:1-3; John 1:1-14). "And the Word was made 'flesh.'" All God created was made "flesh" in one sense of the word. Flesh, sarx (GK), also has the meaning of "material" and by extension "body" or as the symbol of what's external.

Why do I care?

All life; the body, the soul, the natural physical world, is spiritual. All things are spiritual. In the Hebrew the word dbar means "word" and also "thing." Jesus said, "It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life."

So what?

The recovery of sight to the blind. That's what. All life is spiritual; some can see, some cannot. Some by choice, others by ignorance. The choice is yours.

Being

I cannot fully accept what Fr Rohr proposes in his posting this morning: All Language is Metaphor. He makes some very important points, however, I believe, the power of his points are lost in his proposition that words are metaphors.

I'm not Hebrew linguist, nor scholar, but from my studies I've learned that in the Hebrew the word "dbar" (dvar?) means both "word" and "thing." It is a concept that one is a concrete reality of the other. The word "moon" is as much a concrete reality as the actual rock illuminated in our night sky. The word, concept, and meaning are intrinsic. So much so that if you say "baby moon" people have no concept of what that is unless you contextuallize statement with "hubcaps." So the word does not just point a finger towards the moon, the word "moon" is intrinsic in the concept and "being" of the actual satellite of the earth.

What was Adam's first project on the earth? Gen. 2:19: And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air: and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Names matter. Names are words, words devise constructs, concepts, and context in the mind and those constructs, concepts, and contexts have meaning and those meanings have "being." There is much more to the phrase "that was the name thereof." A word is a container of "being."

In the spirit, the word/name is as real as the "thing."

Welcome to earth

This is where we learn the knowledge of good and evil. Pay attention to the lessons on Love.

The sacrifice of Adam

Contemplate this.

to live

Rest, and think
Relax, and contemplate
Look, and see
Watch, and learn

The Image of God

we spend too much time making God, and His Church in our own image rather than accepting the image of God.

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