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by Ronald Rolheiser
"At the end of the day our task is to recognize that God is in the silence, the frustration, the loneliness, the emptiness of our lives.
"We should never be shocked at our own emptiness, nor should we run from it and think that God is dead. God is in the emptiness. But the God who is found there is not God as we imagine Him. The God we find in loneliness and emptiness is the real God, the God that nobody can look at and live because that God is too real, too ineffable, too infinite, too unnameable, too wild, and too much pure fire to be captured in any concepts, words, imaginations, or even feelings. That God, of course, can be met and known; but, this side of eternity, perhaps that God is most easily met precisely when our own words sound flat and empty."
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1 comment:
There have been times, recently, when I have found God to be a blank slate--no words, no answers, almost a kind of 'what do you think?' coming back at me. Which sometimes can be highly 'F-able' (rather than ineffable).
Sometimes I think God just wants me to come up with my own answers, my own words, my own energy.
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