Manchester Pilgrimage
Hi Gang--I'm behind on posting comments--sorry about that. A full weekend with Vestry Retreat. Anyhow...I have been reading along with your comments and am grateful for your insight! On we go...
Rabbit Angstrom, a character in one of John Updike's novels, finds "that the best proof of God's existence is Rabbit's own desire for him, his own undeniable longing" (p.97). What does our longing for God reveal about God? What does it reveal about us?
Winner finds in one of Updike's books a line that he scrawled quoting Augustine: Deus est qui Deum dat. How do you respond to the idea that God gives us many gifts, but "God is He Who gives God" (p. 98)?
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What could be a more perfect gift than to give of self. In this case, it is God giving himself totally to us.
Our longing for God is somewhat like the body's desire for certain foods. We can't put our finger on why but we know that when we partake of that "food" we are satisfied.
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