Thank you Alan, I am engaging a little lighter these days as seminary got rolling again, but this section of the poem is fantastic. Your question "how can we ever love Her laws?" just seems like such a non-starter for many people simply because She has them. And if I'm being honest, we all culturally struggle with operating under this influence, (with reverence and utmost respect for AA and all it's amazing work in our culture) it seems we need an Autonomy Anonymous
“…that there is beauty in acknowledging that we are sinners who living before a gracious God.”
“One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”
Psalms 27:4 NIV
“It wasn’t airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.” Carl Denham in “King Kong”
I wonder whether beauty isn’t the ultimate apologetic. It seems like the church is a little band of subversives refusing to denounce mystery and beauty. Yes, even and especially, the terrible but unconquerable beauty of the cross.
Pete Townsend's song Eminence Front hits these notes in a secular way. might be worth a listen.
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Thank you Alan, I am engaging a little lighter these days as seminary got rolling again, but this section of the poem is fantastic. Your question "how can we ever love Her laws?" just seems like such a non-starter for many people simply because She has them. And if I'm being honest, we all culturally struggle with operating under this influence, (with reverence and utmost respect for AA and all it's amazing work in our culture) it seems we need an Autonomy Anonymous
Wonderful thoughts! Reminds me of Eliott's lines on "the Wounded Surgeon".
“…that there is beauty in acknowledging that we are sinners who living before a gracious God.”
“One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”
Psalms 27:4 NIV
“It wasn’t airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.” Carl Denham in “King Kong”
I wonder whether beauty isn’t the ultimate apologetic. It seems like the church is a little band of subversives refusing to denounce mystery and beauty. Yes, even and especially, the terrible but unconquerable beauty of the cross.
Keep going.