Having read bothe this chapter and your note I would add that I have read most of the first two volumes of St. Teresa's three volume set, all but the Soliloquis which I read a few of, but someone made off with volume three before I could read it. I have never read any John of the Cross because I really yelled at God the first time I started to experience a dark night and He did come back because I couldn't handle it. But Revelation says cowards can't enter the kingdom of God so I need to go back in that elevator and see what happens.
I have spent immense amounts of my life running from God. Lately He has been really moving in positive ways towards me, maybe due to the intercession of someone who recently died, for which I can only be grateful.
I'm living with my brother who has a copy I can use. I presume this means I should read the first chapter and then reread what you wrote. If my thinking is incorrect please let me know.
I'm about to try a new-to-me geeky thing: Using a split screen.
chapter 01 on the left and this reply on the right.
Let's just see if this works.
A question of relevance: I get the Tolkien references, having read the Trilogy many times. For some reason, often during Autumn, when something Old and Complex longs to awaken Inside my soul. Perhaps harkening back to a longer time in the Garden, before the Fall, than we Moderns are allowed to know of, or can appreciate.
<Here is my motive, Lord,> The Good News IS better than you, (and I) tend to think. Amen Sister! Our love of God manifests in a desire to serve the Will of God, not as in, what do I get? But rather, how might I become worthy, merely to exist? The Problem of the finite Salvation must always be with us. So sad. Trivial is this God that I can easily compass! No wonder the atheists find traction in every new generation. Straw men simply beg to be knocked down in what is mere child's play.
My allotted hour is spent in tinkering with excessive polishing of too few words. Yet, I see a potential for fluidity in this arrangement.
I'll return later. May this day be fruitful, to all who read this desire.
I'm from Vermont. Five or six generations on the same hillside farm. Now as good as rootless in small town Alabama, but the locals seem familiar, somehow.
You had me at St. John of the Cross. Let's see where this goes. "I'll be back."
I usually check abebooks.com to see if a book is available used (it takes a little while to arrive if the sender uses media mail but "time is money" as they say).
Maybe all I need to know is that you don't foresee concluding this project before I've had time to read this book while catching up on the discussion. Imagine I have an hour a day to recover from less worthy diversions. (Or more if a Holy obsession wakes up.)
Having read bothe this chapter and your note I would add that I have read most of the first two volumes of St. Teresa's three volume set, all but the Soliloquis which I read a few of, but someone made off with volume three before I could read it. I have never read any John of the Cross because I really yelled at God the first time I started to experience a dark night and He did come back because I couldn't handle it. But Revelation says cowards can't enter the kingdom of God so I need to go back in that elevator and see what happens.
I have spent immense amounts of my life running from God. Lately He has been really moving in positive ways towards me, maybe due to the intercession of someone who recently died, for which I can only be grateful.
As a kid I used to try to walk up the down elevator until an employee came and ordered me to stop because I might hurt myself so I had to stop.
I'm living with my brother who has a copy I can use. I presume this means I should read the first chapter and then reread what you wrote. If my thinking is incorrect please let me know.
That sounds like a good plan. And then I can answer any questions about the book or about my disjointed rambling.
I'm about to try a new-to-me geeky thing: Using a split screen.
chapter 01 on the left and this reply on the right.
Let's just see if this works.
A question of relevance: I get the Tolkien references, having read the Trilogy many times. For some reason, often during Autumn, when something Old and Complex longs to awaken Inside my soul. Perhaps harkening back to a longer time in the Garden, before the Fall, than we Moderns are allowed to know of, or can appreciate.
<Here is my motive, Lord,> The Good News IS better than you, (and I) tend to think. Amen Sister! Our love of God manifests in a desire to serve the Will of God, not as in, what do I get? But rather, how might I become worthy, merely to exist? The Problem of the finite Salvation must always be with us. So sad. Trivial is this God that I can easily compass! No wonder the atheists find traction in every new generation. Straw men simply beg to be knocked down in what is mere child's play.
My allotted hour is spent in tinkering with excessive polishing of too few words. Yet, I see a potential for fluidity in this arrangement.
I'll return later. May this day be fruitful, to all who read this desire.
Silly me: I just replied to myself, below.
I have not figured out the drag and drop on my new low budget OS and minimal hardware.
(Curse you, Microsoft!)
I'd better get on the High Road to Heaven, lest I encounter the newest Circle of Suffering in Purgatory along this dubious way.
(Praise God for new Saints for new times.)
I'm from Vermont. Five or six generations on the same hillside farm. Now as good as rootless in small town Alabama, but the locals seem familiar, somehow.
You had me at St. John of the Cross. Let's see where this goes. "I'll be back."
I suspect that if I am to participate in this Readalong I will have to acquire the book.
Used is not always an option, but new books in the public domain are often a crap shoot.
Can you advise me? I'm past the age of being willing to read books on a screen.
I usually check abebooks.com to see if a book is available used (it takes a little while to arrive if the sender uses media mail but "time is money" as they say).
Thanks.
Maybe all I need to know is that you don't foresee concluding this project before I've had time to read this book while catching up on the discussion. Imagine I have an hour a day to recover from less worthy diversions. (Or more if a Holy obsession wakes up.)
Time is money. OK. But is money time?
It's likely that you can catch up (I am on chapter 12 out of 17 and at the moment my progress is slow, or nonexistent, because it is summer).
Roger that.
I should have a copy in a few days.
Peace
I generally use alibris. They search a bunch of bookstores and I usually have the results within a week.