Play is a feeling to be learned
A few quotes by Jurgen Moltmann in The 'Theology of Play':
"have the old pharisees and the new zealots, with their conservative and revolutionary legalism, scared us away from freedom, from joy and spontaneity? it is unlikely that anything good or just will come about unless it flows from an abundance of joy and the passion of love."
... Is life something to be celebrated or endured?
... william james said that faith is either a dull habit or an acute fever
... we have become so compulsively utilitarian that we can scarcely hear, see, or feel the world about us without having to attach a purpose to it.
... a young jewish girl, surrounded by the horrors of a nazi concentration camp, had the grace and composure to write the following poem - 'from tomorrow on/ i shall be sad/ from tomorrow on-/ not today. / today i will be glad,/ and every day/ no matter how bitter it may be/ i shall say/ from tomorrow on i shall be sad/ not today.' although we live in the wealthiest nation in the world, during a time of relative peace, in an age of overwhelming opportunity, we have written a less grateful adaption of the above poem, which goes like this: from tomorrow on i shall be happy, from tomorrow on. not today. and every day, no matter how good things may be, i shall say from tomorrow on ill be happy not today.
posted by Once Again... at 6:18 AM
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A chasing of the wind.
Meaningless, meaningless..
as the Nihilist says. Yes the Nihilist steals from Ecclessiastes yet refuses to follow it to its end...
That end?
Everything is meaningless in light of the surpasing glory of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:2
"here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man."
and as always we need reminding (and that need is human) the commandments are:
Love God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind. '... 'And you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
which leads to...
I Cor. 5
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;
10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.
11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one.
12For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?
I want them to wisper among themselves: "HE'S DINNING WITH LIBERALS!!!"
Hey thats a nice photo. Beautiful work. Hey Bro!
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