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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

How cool is that !?


If God is always mystery, then God is always on some level the unfamiliar, beyond what we’re used to, beyond our comfort zone, beyond what we can explain or understand. In the fourth century, St. Augustine said, “If you comprehend it, it’s not God.”
                                                                                    Richard Rohr
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O Sacred One
I do not understand

I do not understand the universe
It is vastness

I do not understand people
in their smallness

I do not understand
why people get sick and die
why bad things happen to good people
and liars prosper

I do not understand how nature
can be so beautiful and so harsh
how it can bring joy and life
and death

Above all I do not understand
myself
this complex, confusing being
that is fearfully and wonderfully made

I do not understand
why I think and feel the way I do
I do not understand why I do such stupid things

I do not understand relationships
I do not understand love

above all I do not understand You

I simply cannot wrap my mind around you

I can touch you with my soul
I can sense the Presence within
And I know,
I know that you are there
but I do not understand

you are too complex
too big

too much

how cool is that?!

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