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: Teilhard de Chardin is quoted as saying, : "Nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. On the contrary everything is sacred." : In this spirit, I would like to share a few poems and quotes with you that explain a bit of how I see God.... : "Earth's crammed with heaven." Elizabeth Barrett Browning : : "I don't know what sort of a God we have been talking about. : The caller calls in a loud voice to the Holy One at dusk. : Why? surely the Holy One is not deaf. : He hears the delicate anklets that ring on the feet of an insect as it walks. : Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, : wear your hair matted, long, and ostentatious, : but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God? " Kabir : : "I am always with all beings; : I abandon no one. : And however great your inner darkness, : you are never separate from me......" : The Bhagavad Gita : "I cannot dance, O Lord, unless you lead me....." : Mechtild of Magdeburg : "The process of conversion begins with genuine openness to change." Thomas Keating : "God is hidden in difficulties." Thomas Keating : "Through love, thorns become roses, vinegar becomes sweet wine, the stake becomes a thorn, the reverse of fortune seems good fortune...a grate full of ashes seems a garden ...the hard stone becomes soft as butter, grief is as joy, ghouls turn into angels...." : Rumi : : "A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events." Emerson : : From the comic strip Peanuts: : Linus: "They can't fire Miss Othmar! : I'll write a letter of protest! I'll blow this thing wide open!!!!! : I'll write to someone in authority! Someone who can really do something! : (Looking at Lucy) How does one go about getting a letter to the Apostle Paul?" : : "For human beings, to understand is to undergo change." : T. Aquinas : "Till I loved : I never lived-Enough" : E. Dickinson : : "God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of his life in us." Thomas Keating : A crisis in our lives is not a reason to run away : It is the voice of Christ inviting us to accept more of the Divine Light. Thomas Keating : I believe in the God who hears the "delicate anklets on the feet of an insect as it walks." I think we should : rewrite the Creed to include this idea. :) : And, finally, : "All shall be well...." : Thanks! : Diana

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