Mid-morning. You are wondering why prayer is built in like hope. Hope has a mythology but prayer does not.
Merriam-Webster’s first definition (at least the one I feel is appropriate in context) is “an address or a petition to God”. In this sense it would be as to hope something is to automatically address God with the hope. Is this your meaning?
Yes.
I would have never drawn the two words together. What of us agnostics – no, what of the atheists?
Such is irony, at least in this blog and books. The brain needs to create order to function properly. A part of this order is a sense of the concept of God. To say the universe is chaos is easily said, but no matter, the brain creates an order out of it for physical survival of the body (which is an organic system of which the brain is automatically attached). Belief stems from hope.
I don’t like the sound of this.
It is a sub-set order based on hope. You may hope to deny this but you cannot deny the possibility. Hope is measurable whereas the combination of heartansoulanmind are not. Post. – Amorella.
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Belief is as a dressing for a wound.
Where did that come from, boy?
I don’t know. I just woke up from a short nap in the chair and thought it. First, I thought of a belief as a dressing of sorts, a nightgown, clothes to be added or taken off then ‘dressing as for a wound’ hit as the wound of ‘original sin’, and it seemed to fit. Heartansoulanmind are not measurable but penetrations and salves perhaps might be. Then, the Dead. What of their beliefs? Their cultures hold them together socially but as they are originally a species and only have heartsansoulsanminds; no, they have nakedness, a self-awareness of nakedness, raw meat – only dead, not even that, raw unconsciousness perhaps, seemingly unordered or chaos, and perhaps so, before the mind makes something substantial and identifiable of it. Self-identity, self purpose, self-human with a sense of dignity if nothing else, and hopefully freedom, that is, freedom of choice.
Post. – Amorella.
There was something in what the Archbishop said during the wedding ceremony yesterday that is the trigger. Clarity and word choice. A connection to nakedness. It is of interest to the Dead in the story.
I mean, I can make it of interest to the Dead in the story.
Do what you enjoy. Research.
You have the transcript of Dr. Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London’s wedding sermon, and have highlighted material you consider appropriate and while I will include it, I also will conclude with what I consider the most important aspect of the sermon. – Amorella.
"Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire."
So said St Catherine of Siena whose festival day this is.
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In the Spirit of this generous God, husband and wife are to give themselves to each other.
The spiritual life grows as love finds its centre beyond ourselves. Faithful and committed relationships offer a door into the mystery of spiritual life in which we discover this: the more we give of self, the richer we become in soul; the more we go beyond ourselves in love, the more we become our true selves and our spiritual beauty is more fully revealed. In marriage we are seeking to bring one another into fuller life.
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There must be no coercion if the Spirit is to flow; each must give the other space and freedom. Chaucer, the London poet, sums it up in a pithy phrase:
"Whan maistrie [mastery] comth, the God of Love anon, Beteth his wynges, and farewell, he is gon."
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[And from the concluding prayer written by William and Catherine]:
In the busyness of each day keep our eyes fixed on what is real and important in life and help us to be generous with our time and love and energy. Strengthened by our union help us to serve and comfort those who suffer.
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Perspective shows itself in our minds’ difference on the text. It is well you disagree with my choice of words as you and I are not one no matter what your thoughts. – Amorella.
It is good that people in every continent are able to share in these celebrations because this is, as every wedding day should be, a day of hope.
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In a sense every wedding is a royal wedding with the bride and groom as king and queen of creation, making a new life together so that life can flow through them into the future.
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We shall not be converted to the promise of the future by more knowledge, but rather by an increase of loving wisdom and reverence, for life, for the earth and for one another.
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(T)he Holy Spirit is quickened within us and can increasingly fill our lives with light. This leads on to a family life which offers the best conditions in which the next generation can receive and exchange those gifts which can overcome fear and division and incubate the coming world of the Spirit, whose fruits are love and joy and peace.
I pray that all of us present and the many millions watching this ceremony and sharing in your joy today will do everything in their power to support and uphold you in your new life. I pray that God will bless you in the way of life you have chosen.
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From: the wedding sermon of Dr. Richard Chartres for Prince William and Princess Catherine at Westminster, 29/04/11.
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We have our choices of the sermon text and they are therein put.
Good. Post. – Amorella.
Almost time for the evening news. You spent a couple of hours outdoors pulling weeds along the front walk and porch as well as fixing the lawn mower for better grass scatter through improvising – last year you used duct tape, this year, two well placed screws will hopefully do the trick better.
In reading over the material we placed as important in the sermon you noticed that my selected text better gives the Dead’s perspective and you text, the Living. At least that is how you see it.
True. I am surprised by that, but I enjoyed that a couplet of Chaucer’s was included, the Bishop stood not more than twenty feet from the London poet’s bones. I like that he chose those words. I enjoyed his sermon very much. I would insert it in a British literature textbook in a second. I would have run it off and we would be reading and discussing the text on Monday.
Keep searching for a photo of your Aunt Patsy and Uncle Ernie. Post. – Amorella.
You and Carol finished mowing and raking the lawn a little after nine. You didn’t realize it was going to rain tomorrow. Carol did most of the mowing while you mainly raked. e
I am catching on. Being Dead in these books really is a whole other experience.
Another dimensional experience. This will become easier as you learn to see the Living and the Dead as a single moment. That is what you will have to do in the writing. Post. – Amorella.
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