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imagine...
sarah said:
It's truly never gonna happen but we
can
think about it and smile for a moment.
No need for greed or hunger. No need to fight and die.
Just everybody
as one
happy group. Notice that Lennon calls himself a
"dreamer."
--->i think of myself that way too. and somehow the
most dreamlike and wonderful things aspire to a
reality that is beyond me in my current life. beyond
my ways. beyond my dirty footsteps.
so when i want to go beyond, i'm thinking of something
that's not "human" in those senses. not a humanist
ideal. that song is a humanist, utopian ideal.
i'm the last person to say, "well, yeah, i think
hunger and war are just great." but there are two
possible motivations for how i really "feel," and the
one that wins out for the "good of mankind" is weak,
tired, weary, and selfish. not the one i want even if
it is the most natural to me and my condition. the
irony is that often what is good for me is not the
thing that i find the most "pleasure" in---losing my
life to gain it, is it?
i want to see those dreads erased, but i don't think
they will be by destroying the one who is our only
hope. in this case: the divine.
in the most basic sense, i'm with lennon and many who
say, "quit shoving it down my throat." i don't think
shoving is even effective/logical/true. seems to
defeat the whole point actually. but nor would i
erase any part of this picture that i clearly do not
understand in its entirety. that means i'm not
writing off god just b/c people do terrible things.
i'm not going to allow the age-old practice of casting
our prefered image of him over who he might actually
be b/c it suits me. sure i do it, but i'm not going
to allow myself to when i'm aware :) of it. and the
imaging is crucial. the disdain for _all_ religion
(which ends up being even disdain for _who/what_ it
represents...) is risky business.
i can't imagine away that which sometimes won't let me
sleep at night, stirring my gutts up and confronting
all sorts of attitudes. it's the same that _never_
sleeps and sings over me while i rest and flutter my
eyelids in protected dreams...and even imaginings. i
won't imagine away convictions (or the convictor) that
actually lead me to be merciful, kind, patient etc. i
think lennon is onto something, but he misses more of
the point than i want to miss.
-j. marie
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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. -Flannery O'Connor
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