So. Tonight was a great night. Saner's here! He's like a brother it seems. We had fun driving around all day Christmas shopping and then tonight we went to Stief's and played like 3 hours of FIFA straight and ate tons of snack food. I'm the least healthy vegetarian ever (except Sara). Tomorrow I don't know what we're doing but he's leaving in the afternoon. And I get to visit Sara up in Lancaster. Should be good times. All of break has been good times. It's so nice to not have shit to do. Just relaxing. Ah. Here try it with me. Ah.
so . . . .
You know what I'm really tired of? (little to no transition there eh?) People thinking of God as a person. Like he's some grey bearded old man sitting on his throne up there in heaven. That's such an archaic view. No doubt, the bible does often portray God as a father or lover or bride. But I think there's so much more in there. Deeper analogies. When really God is limitless. But we like to think of God as a person because we think we can understand people. So if we can understand people and God's like a person, then we can understand God. And when we can understand God, we can tell everyone else how their wrong, because we know God! People are really scared of a God they can't understand and they say, isn't God supposed to be loving and simple? Well, there's the big paradox! God is extremely infinite, beyond all knowledge and comprehension, our putting the very thought of Him (ha ha. I say him as if God were a man) into understandable words is really an insult to the vast expanse of who God is and yet, just breathe and you can totally understand how God works by breathing deeply and being. It's not tough. That's the paradox. Go love someone and you will have mastered this God, or better put, you will have been the love that is God. So it's deep but we talk about God and his will, and his words, and his thoughts as if he were just a person. I think it's time to approach this all with a little more honetsy about our naivity. That would help us all out a little I think. The greatest paradox was when God became human. The marriage of two seeming extremes. Really, we should live that paradox everyday, we humans, living as that God everyday. So the paradox is a paradox in itself; seemingly a vast paradox and yet our everyday responsibility.
