Why so many souls?

from Meister Eckhart:

Why so many souls?

When were you last really happy?
Let that experience ferment,
bring it to mind once
in a while.

Surely in the genesis of that past moment, when you danced,
you would not have wanted a constable
to have knocked
on your door,

or have said, "You just entered
a restricted ground."

Why are there so many stars and souls,
with no end in sight for them?

Because nothing can interrupt God
when He is having
fun,

creating!

from "Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West," By Daniel Ladinsky

We daily break the body and shed the blood...

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration.

- Wendell Berry
The Gift of Good Land

hat tip to God's Politics at Beliefnet

Rowan Williams on "God the Creator"

For my Christian Theology class, we are looking at "God the Creator", and what this means in its fullest sense, and are using Rowan Williams' Book, Tokens of Trust, as well as Gunnar Urang's An Inquirer's Guide to Christian Believing to begin to explore God the Creator.

"Faith doesn't try and give you an alternative theory about the mechanics of the world; it invites you to take a step further, beyond the nuts and bolts, even beyond the Big Bang, to imagine an activity so unrestricted, so supremely itself, that it depends on nothing and is constantly pouring itself out so that the reality we know depends on it. Creation isn't a theory about how things started; as St. Thomas Aquinas said, it's a way of seeing everything in relation to God. Whatever you encounter is there because God chose that it should be there."

I've been "away" for a bit...visiting my folks in Vermont, along with my two sons...we had a great time, visited many friends and just enjoyed the wonder that is God's creation up there in the "Land of Milk and Honey" (they really call it that!!!), or also called the Green Mountain State. I will post more, soon, and many thoughts came to me as I spent time out in nature, biking in my hometown, and also eating the best donuts in the whole world! I miss the sugar and fat already!!!

Also, I broke down and bought the new Harry Potter book, in the morning of the Saturday that it was released, supporting the local book shop, The Vermont Book Shop ...I finished it today. I will not say more than it was good. I would hate to give anything away, but it was good.