Blessed are you who are rich, for you can give much without sacrificing much of your own comfort and are a witness of how God blesses the truly faithful.
Blessed are you who are satisfied, for you do not need to worry about going hungry and can focus on heavenly things.
Blessed are you who laugh, and do not get distracted from what is really important for eternity by the shortsighted weeping of those who futilely mourn because of, and for, a doomed world.
I was recently reflecting on C.S.Lewis’ poem, “Footnote to all Prayers”. The poem explores the futility of language to speak of God and his name. It rightly calls all men idolaters to the degree that we are limited by the images of God we stamp in our minds. Lewis references “Pheidian fancies” as a reminder that the symbols we have in our mind, that come from human construct (whether sculpture or human words etched on parchment), can not describe all that God is.
I have been blogging for over five years now, mostly on a multi-contributor site I started with a few friends years ago called “Emergent Nazarenes” that is still active today. I also have a personal blog called “Indigenous Stranger” which I also started five years ago, but went from reaching forty annual posts a year in 2008, to seven in 2009 and just one post this year.
