Would you say this desire for more than we can handle goes back to the Garden where the first humans desired more knowledge than we could really understand and could this desire be the original sin? It seems to me that this is a pervasive problem in our lives - not being content with all that God has given - always wanting more. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. This series has been very interesting!
What I appreciate about this notion of the body as cosmic iconography is the Truth that no one person will ever represent the whole of the cosmos. God alone, in His Supremacy, holds that honor. This means that we humans have the privilege of representing a small puzzle piece of the larger "heavens". In this, my limitations become a blessing as they assure I hold not the whole in my reflection or responsibilities. They also assure that my body needs the greater Body--alive in marriage, in family, in community, in the Church--to become more whole, more completely cosmic, which is promised and accessible through the resurrected body of Christ Jesus. How perfectly perverse of God's enemy to twist our holy need for completion into a sensual ache or seductive power? Even for Israel, she ached for wholeness, but whored herself for sleazy partials. No wonder the wrath of God waxed hot. He holds us out to us, in relationship and redemption, His entire estate, while our adulterous nature settles for the empty expression of another's same limitations. Simply put, sin is a sad form of settling, a resignation to accept a pathetic amount of less because we cannot bear the narrow path to Exceedingly More. He offers us the cosmos while we salivate over sand.
Would you say this desire for more than we can handle goes back to the Garden where the first humans desired more knowledge than we could really understand and could this desire be the original sin? It seems to me that this is a pervasive problem in our lives - not being content with all that God has given - always wanting more. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. This series has been very interesting!
What I appreciate about this notion of the body as cosmic iconography is the Truth that no one person will ever represent the whole of the cosmos. God alone, in His Supremacy, holds that honor. This means that we humans have the privilege of representing a small puzzle piece of the larger "heavens". In this, my limitations become a blessing as they assure I hold not the whole in my reflection or responsibilities. They also assure that my body needs the greater Body--alive in marriage, in family, in community, in the Church--to become more whole, more completely cosmic, which is promised and accessible through the resurrected body of Christ Jesus. How perfectly perverse of God's enemy to twist our holy need for completion into a sensual ache or seductive power? Even for Israel, she ached for wholeness, but whored herself for sleazy partials. No wonder the wrath of God waxed hot. He holds us out to us, in relationship and redemption, His entire estate, while our adulterous nature settles for the empty expression of another's same limitations. Simply put, sin is a sad form of settling, a resignation to accept a pathetic amount of less because we cannot bear the narrow path to Exceedingly More. He offers us the cosmos while we salivate over sand.
Doesn’t roll off the tongue like “wonderland” but it’s ok I suppose
Regarding footnote 1, where is “the body keeps the score” debunked?