Paul's insistence on bodily resurrection is hard to understand but today I realised that it is a way to counter dualism: the separation of body and spirit which has been such a problem for centuries and has been for me too.
in you the rift is healed.
not in a "world to come" but now.
you see us whole even when we cannot.
though you try to show us.
the trinity
yes three in one
but more one than three.
(and these are not two separate issues)a
recalling my response long ago at Worth to confusing and overwhelming joy:
suspicion, doubt, fear of self-inflation
I couldn't believe.
I even thought it ugly
I refused.
now I see more clearly:
you cannot but give.
not just to me of course!
but to all who call!
freely and joyfully.
now I will not refuse.
today: unexpected
a little clarity.
first
the place where it seems you cannot possibly be
there indeed you are!
second
you share everything -
sometimes it seems too much!
Beethovenian immensity:
all gift!
this last I have seriously misunderstood
My words have been frivolous: what can I reply?
I had better lay my finger on my lips.
I have spoken once... I will not speak again;
more than once... I will add nothing.
from today's mass reading
tonight dogma unravelled for me a little . . .
Word
is Language
is all of human knowledge
is Wisdom
is truth as we conceive it.
not Truth as it is but truth as we conceive it
revealed to us . . .
but only through language:
the Word.
Truth as it really is cannot be conceived.
"the Word through whom you made all things"
the knowledge by which we conceive the truth?
the gift of language?
"In the beginning was the Word"
but
In the beginning is what is.
inconceivable
"I am who I am."
Only revealed to us through the Word . . . . .
but not "the Word by which"
but "the Word through whom"
and so:
"the knowledge by which we conceive the truth"
would read
"the knowledge in whom we conceive the truth"
a person
you
truth can never be conceived
but, in relationship with it
(which means with you)
we grow.