a novel i read last semester, "till we have faces", made the point that we can never fully comprehend things of heaven, until we have faces.
in a letter, cs lewis had this to say
"How can [the gods] meet us face to face till we have faces? The idea was that a human being must become real before it can expect to receive any message from the superhuman; that is, it must be speaking with its own voice (not one of its borrowed voices), expressing its actual desires (not what it imagines that it desires), being for good or ill itself, not any mask, veil, or persona."
this semester has been a struggling in the dark, for me. in journals, and speeches, i mentioned how i "don't have the answers" slash "don't know how t get answers". but something came to me yesterday, while i was writing a youth talk;
we are not given the answers, but we are given a relationship, through which we can seek to understand, if only a little. if we are to meet the divine, to cross the veil that divides the physical, we start with honesty. when the relatinship with Christ becomes of one intimacy and understanding we start to find ourselves. the challenge of following Christ is to let Him in to the most dear places, who we are, that we hide behind.
and i think the mystery of Christ's love is that we are designed with a desire to express what we are, who we are. the desire we have to know ourselves is a deeper responce, to wanting to know the creator, who built us that way.
well. thats my thought of the day. i'm trying to write a deep statement, or something, to finish off my "christian imagination" writing assingment.
3 comments:
karl is going to love the c.s. lewis quote.
something i thought of as i was reading this was the challange of applying a "less of me, more of you" theology. i guess that's something we all need to figure out.
i like this :)
it reminds me of the way i imagine the Spirit within us and the Father beyond us (along with the Son between us of course) ache to interact...
mm...where did this "less of me, more of you" thing come from? is it from Scripture or from a church song? i don't know if i like how it's worded. 'cause i think this concept of a waning self is a little off...i maybe like "more of who i'm supposed to be, with you"
but that's just me.
i think it's biblical. i'm pretty sure it's in 1 John. i'm going to look into it though.
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