tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post7934432684802949918..comments2023-02-08T03:16:24.937-05:00Comments on Saturday Morning @ The Story-of- Everything Place: Jesus and the New StoryJohn Kotrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471048328678222796noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-80286797241521517262008-05-31T10:00:00.000-04:002008-05-31T10:00:00.000-04:00Commenting on "Anonymous" (Ken) above . . . . Her...Commenting on "Anonymous" (Ken) above . . . . Here is a meditative technique for allowing new wine to soak into old symbols. Suspend judgment, abandon critical interpretation, allow the words to do their thing, let the story be a story. Something very subtle will happen, Ken says. You'll begin to notice things. You'll be able to refocus.<BR/><BR/>I would add that, while the words of the story are going IN to you, your thoughts will be going OUT. They'll be pouring into the story, even though it won't feel that way. It will feel like you're FINDING fresh meaning, but in actuality you'll be bringing it--and enriching the story, and the tradition, in the process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-8067379795639936772008-05-31T00:15:00.000-04:002008-05-31T00:15:00.000-04:00As an old Catholic I find it interesting to see th...As an old Catholic I find it interesting to see the simplicity of "Jesus and the New Story". It does, in a way, help me deal with how I wonder about Jesus (The Christ) and the Holy Spirit and just how it will all exist in eternity - when, after hundreds of billions of years, we who began experiencing creation on this planet, go on forever making this life seem at once so utterly small but also so real. As real as anything else in creation.Dick Bayerlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04521414517327600238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-67228825772453178702008-05-30T17:40:00.000-04:002008-05-30T17:40:00.000-04:00Every word of your synopsis of Margaret Silf's int...Every word of your synopsis of Margaret Silf's interpretation resonates. Thanks for bringing her to our attention!Sharon Lippincotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269757107845288737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-75151458754731448192008-05-30T15:25:00.000-04:002008-05-30T15:25:00.000-04:00John, As per usual you're onto something. Here's ...John, As per usual you're onto something. Here's something I've been doing lately. Take the seven days of creation from Genesis, chapter one (I like the Robert Alter translation). Put one day on a card, and put 'em together. Meditate on each day--tied to the day of the week. Suspend all scientific understanding, or let it recede from attention. And all classical interpretations of the text, including all the various attempts to synthesize science and faith. Just let the word have their effect....<BR/><BR/>You notice things, after a while in the text. More subtlety than is normally noticed. Different angles on on the creative act: "And God said...and the earth yielded, and the seas swarmed....and it was so...and God saw." Information, means, after the fact reflection....a much more subtle thing going on. <BR/><BR/>Worldviews shift, and we take the old lenses off, or they are taken off for us, and we get disoriented, and then over time, re-focus....<BR/><BR/>ken wilsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com