GRGR (2) "great bright hand"

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Doug Millison wrote:

>
>
> Christian theology can be mind-bogglingly complex,... A good starting point
> would be
> Thomas Merton's _New Seeds of Contemplation_. Here's a sample with Daoist
> (not to mention modern physics) reverberations:
>
> "If, then, we want to seek some way of being holy, we must first of all
> renouce our own way and our own wisdom. We must 'empty ourselves' as He
> did. We must 'deny ourselves' and in some sense make ourselves 'nothing' in
> order that we may live not so much in ourselves as in Him. We must live by
> a power and a light that seem not to be there. We must live by the strength
> of an apparent emptiness that is always truly empty and yet never fails to
> support us at every moment. This is holiness. None of this can be achieved
> by any effort of my own, by any striving of my own, by any competition with
> other men. It means leaving all the ways that men can follow or understand."
>
> d o u g  m i l l i s o n  http://www.online-journalist.com

OH TM, now I'm a carvell puddle on a sewer cap grill sizzzzling in subway steam
from below.