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Skip to comments.Patrick says Obama critics are 'almost at the level of sedition'
Posted on 05/24/2010 12:31:21 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Governor Deval Patrick, even as he decried partisanship in Washington, said today that Republican opposition to President Obamas agenda has become so obstinate that it is almost at the level of sedition.
The Democratic governor, who is close to the president, made the comments at a forum at Suffolk Law School's Rappaport Center, where he was asked by an audience member about partisan battling in Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Hillary Clinton in 2003: "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!"
Like Democrats that opposed Bush and currently oppose anything Republican or conservative?
::::rolls eyes:::: What a maroon.
As are the Regime's enablers and active supporters. ...like Deval Patrick.
I'm not for sedition, I just want to secede.
The leftist elite have a word for folks like you (and me):
There is really only one "final solution" for the ungovernable.
He looks like a zombie model.
Let me guess? FEMA camp red list?
A close connection, n'est ce pas?
One suspects that the entire dissent=sedition notion comes from Mister Obama, and Patrick is merely carrying out an assignment.
Simply words for the MSM to preach and spread to indoctrinate the sheeple and to prepare the nation for when the jack-boots are authorized to come and arrest us........
Golly, never seen so many posts on a thread in such a short time.......and I've been here for almost 20 years.....
Why throw in race? Not helpful OR needed.
Caddilac Duval is such an idiot he has no idea what sedition even means.
Sedition-——an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
Obama did that whe he was sworn in as President.
He knowingly accepted the Presidency when he was not a qualified person.
Probably something like that.
The point of the concentration camps was not only mass extermination,
but a total "grinding down" of the people. Just simply wearing them out, to death, with work and malnutrition and mistreatment.
This wasn't just a matter of wanting them dead. It was more demonic than that. And the left today would follow the same pattern with the "ungovernable".
Deval is competing with former Rep Kennedy for the title of biggest nitwit Patrick of the northeast.
21,768 murdered in Katyn massacre by the Soviet NKVD - April 1940 - Joseph Stalin
Sedition is the highest form of patriotism...
The folks up here refer to the guv as Coupe DeVal.
Sedition? The One is the State, eh, Deval?
Yeah, Patrick and you almost have a brain.
If Barking Obama and his marxists minions continue down the road of destroying the US, a peaceful separation may be the best option. Let the Blue States go their way, and let the Red their way.
"The One" is the State,
and the State is their god.
And they cannot let that happen. Not because they'd lose their "host" for their parasitic ideology,
but because they can't stand the thought of someone living outside of their control.
The current regime is so close to treason in its rule...
Myril Axelrod, David's mother, was formerly a writer for PM, a leftist tabloid newspaper published from 1940 to 1948 in New York City. A feature on the leftist nature of PM was published by City Journal in the Summer of 1993.
The paper was founded by Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, a liberal who thought he could use Communists on his staff to help with the circulation of the paper. The Communists, however, used the paper for their own purposes and he lost influence over the magazine after entering the Army.
In fact, in 1946 five of the staff members of PMs Washington, DC bureau resigned in protest over the high level of Communist influence within the newspaper. The five resigned after three other members of the staff were fired. According to the five who resigned:
Although not himself a Communist, he [Ralph Ingersoll] has continuously yielded to Communist pressure and has denounced as factionalists those staff members who have tried to keep the party line out of the paper. He has destroyed the confidence of those who believe that PM should be as realistic and critical of Russian foreign policy as in its evaluation of the foreign policy of our own government. (New York Times, June 15, 1946)
The staff was comprised of both Communists and non-Communist liberals. The paper was overtly political and the writers didnt hide their political biases in their writings. Ingersoll refused to carry advertising because he didnt want the paper to be influenced by advertisers. City Journal writer Roger Starr noted: "Although every member of PMs staff was profoundly anti-Hitler, the staff was divided into two cliques: the liberals who regarded the Soviet Union as a slave state, devoid of individual rights, and the liberals who regarded the Soviet Union as a living demonstration of a truly humane society."
For example, Leo Huberman, a Communist sympathizer, was the labor news editor. I.F. Stone was the Washington, DC correspondent for PM. In the 1980s, a KGB agent fingered Stone as a willing participant in Soviet intelligence operations in the U.S.
The paper, however, was never a financial success without advertising. It received funding from Marshall Field III, a leftist millionaire who kept the paper running for eight years. Field also funded the Industrial Areas Foundation, a training school for radical leftist organizers, which was headed by Saul Alinsky. (Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were trained by Alinsky radicals in Chicago).
Former Communist Eugene Lyons, writing in The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America, noted that PMs staff included a former editor of the Daily Worker; another was former editor of The Communist; and a third was a leader of the Communist Youth League; a fourth was a Soviet government official; and a fifth was the former staff cartoonist for the Daily Worker, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA.
We have been unable to determine if Axelrods mother was a liberal who considered the Soviet Union a slave state or a Marxist-leaning liberal who viewed the Soviet Union as a humane society. The fact remains, however, that her liberalism was obviously infused into the mind of David Axelrod and is what still apparently motivates him to support leftist candidates.
And MamaTexan says she has proof that any attempt to blend the rights of the People with the government is Constitutionally defined TREASON!
So piss off, you socialist wanker!
One wonders if the Mass. Gov. ever heard of Bunker Hill!
This governor needs to have his head examined, at the local looney-tune farm!
Just two years ago it was; "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" and now it's sedition.
The anti-American socialist in our White House has nominated a judge who approves of rationing speech and other tactics in clear violation of the Constitution to sit on the Supreme Court. He has approved a budget that quadruples Bush's already shocking deficits. The Kenyan/Indonesian/Hawaiian from Chicago has systematically weakened our country and strengthened our enemies. He has burdened our children and grandchildren with a staggering level of debt. The community organizer has transferred our wealth from those who actually produced that wealth to those who stuffed the ballot boxes for his and for his cronies. Sedition? There was a time when men like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and John Adams responded far more harshly to far less provocation.
Very good points.
>>> We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately... <<<
Too stupid to know what sedition means. MA sure elects some major losers.
The Guns of August...
As opposed to the treason of obama?????
Don't know who Charlie Baker is. We got our own problems in NH. Most of the electorate seems hell bent on turning the place into Massachusetts North :( :( :(
But not if I can help it, which is why I'm running for a seat in the legislature.
He's a Clintonite. There's your answer.
What part of "the consent of the governed" does he not understand?
It is our RIGHT to question and ABOLISH the government if it is no longer serving the will of the People.
It IS NOT serving the will of the people.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God - B. Franklin.
And if that's not enough...
I requested and admin deleted it for me and you :)
"You must bow to government authority, peasants!"
Attention All Libtards in the Regime:
They are on one knee, but:
1. Those are armed citizens, not peasants.
2. That position gives them a more steady aim.
A thanks to Travis McGee for his line I used as a lead in line.
Oh, please don't throw me in the briar patch!
Start to worry when we decide talking is a waste of time.
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text: MBLWHOI Library MBLWHOI Library http://hdl.handle.net/1912/1 2016-04-28T19:56:40Z 2016-04-28T19:56:40Z Ocean data publication cookbook Leadbetter, Adam Raymond, Lisa Chandler, Cynthia Pikula, Linda Pissierssens, Peter Urban, Ed http://hdl.handle.net/1912/7962 2016-04-27T07:27:34Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Ocean data publication cookbook Leadbetter, Adam; Raymond, Lisa; Chandler, Cynthia; Pikula, Linda; Pissierssens, Peter; Urban, Ed Executive summary: This "Cookbook" has been written for data managers and librarians who are interested in assigning a permanent identifier to a dataset for the purposes of publishing that dataset online and for the citation of that dataset within the scientific literature. A formal publishing process adds value to the dataset for the data originators as well as for future users of the data. Value may be added by providing an indication of the scientific quality and importance of the dataset (as measured through a process of peer review), and by ensuring that the dataset is complete, frozen and has enough supporting metadata and other information to allow it to be used by others. Publishing a dataset also implies a commitment to persistence of the data and allows data producers to obtain academic credit for their work in creating the datasets. One form of persistent identifier is the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). A DOI is a character string (a "digital identifier") used to provide a unique identity of an object such as an electronic document. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location where the object can be found. The DOI for a document is permanent, whereas its location and other metadata may change. Referring to an online document by its DOI provides more stable linking than simply referring to it by its URL, because if its URL changes, the publisher need only update the metadata for the DOI to link to the new URL. A DOI may be obtained for a variety of objects, including documents, data files and images. The assignment of DOIs to peer-reviewed journal articles has become commonplace. This cookbook provides a step-by-step guide to the data publication process and showcases some best practices for data publication. This cookbook is an outcome of the 5th session of the SCOR/IODE/MBLWHOI Library Workshop on Data Publication and is posted here by permission of UNESCO. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z No Repository is an Island: Putting the WHOAS community repository in a geoscience context [poster] Mickle, Audrey http://hdl.handle.net/1912/7938 2016-04-12T07:49:20Z 2016-04-06T00:00:00Z No Repository is an Island: Putting the WHOAS community repository in a geoscience context [poster] Mickle, Audrey The MBLWHOI Library is partner in the NSF-funded EarthCube building block, GeoLink, whose goal is to push the boundaries of semantic technology in cross-repository discovery within the geosciences field. GeoLink has created ontology design patterns that link together: the MBLWHOI Library's Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOAS); data repositories, including Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R), Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO), Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA), Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER), DataONE and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP); the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded awards; and American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference presentations. The Library created WHOAS, a DSpace repository, more than 10 years ago. As part of the GeoLink project we have been collaborating with @mire, a leader in open source DSpace development to develop modular code that can be integrated into other DSpace installations to improve LOD functionality. Our DSpace goals are to provide a built-in SPARQL endpoint for easy access to the data, implement editable authority concepts with URIs, and be able to integrate concepts from other authoritative sources using SPARQL queries. There is a second layer that takes dc-based DSpace triples and constructs triples based on GeoLink patterns which describes the data in a geoscience context. This provides flexibility and serves as a model for organizations contributing data to multiple LOD communities. This code is freely available to the 1700 registered DSpace repositories worldwide. 2016-04-06T00:00:00Z Axonal maintenance, glia, exosomes, and heat shock proteins Tytell, Michael Lasek, Raymond J. Gainer, Harold http://hdl.handle.net/1912/7898 2016-03-24T07:55:26Z 2016-02-22T00:00:00Z Axonal maintenance, glia, exosomes, and heat shock proteins Tytell, Michael; Lasek, Raymond J.; Gainer, Harold Of all cellular specializations, the axon is especially distinctive because it is a narrow cylinder of specialized cytoplasm called axoplasm with a length that may be orders of magnitude greater than the diameter of the cell body from which it originates. Thus, the volume of axoplasm can be much greater than the cytoplasm in the cell body. This fact raises a logistical problem with regard to axonal maintenance. Many of the components of axoplasm, such as soluble proteins and cytoskeleton, are slowly transported, taking weeks to months to travel the length of axons longer than a few millimeters after being synthesized in the cell body. Furthermore, this slow rate of supply suggests that the axon itself might not have the capacity to respond fast enough to compensate for damage to transported macromolecules. Such damage is likely in view of the mechanical fragility of an axon, especially those innervating the limbs, as rapid limb motion with high impact, like running, subjects the axons in the limbs to considerable mechanical force. Some researchers have suggested that local, intra-axonal protein synthesis is the answer to this problem. However, the translational state of axonal RNAs remains controversial. We suggest that glial cells, which envelop all axons, whether myelinated or not, are the local sources of replacement and repair macromolecules for long axons. The plausibility of this hypothesis is reinforced by reviewing several decades of work on glia-axon macromolecular transfer, together with recent investigations of exosomes and other extracellular vesicles, as vehicles for the transmission of membrane and cytoplasmic components from one cell to another. © The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in F1000Research 5 (2016): 205, doi:10.12688/f1000research.7247.1. 2016-02-22T00:00:00Z Publishing returns to the Academy Goldstone, Heather M. H. Skomal, Susan Markie, Michael Brand, Amy Gray, Joshua P. http://hdl.handle.net/1912/7581 2015-10-26T19:24:39Z 2015-10-23T00:00:00Z Publishing returns to the Academy Goldstone, Heather M. H.; Skomal, Susan; Markie, Michael; Brand, Amy; Gray, Joshua P. Panel and audience conversations about exploring some of the new models through which science publishing can evolve, empowering researchers and the research community to have more critical input in the publishing process Recording of webcast hosted by the MBLWHOI Library, Redfield Auditorium, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, 23 October 2015 2015-10-23T00:00:00Z

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Advent: Great Joy
"I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people." (Luke 2:10)
Joy is a pretty common reaction when God comes near in Jesus' birth. People are amazed, in awe, feel joy, react by praising God…
The shepherds were: "glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen" (Luke 2:20)
They told others, and "all who heard it were amazed" (Luke 2:18)
The angel Gabriel tells Zechariah his son "will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth" (Luke 1:14)
Elizabeth's neighbors and relatives "were filled with awe" (Luke 1:65) and "shared her joy". (Luke1:58)
Even John: "the baby in my womb leaped for joy". (Luke 1:44)
Mary rejoices: "my spirit rejoices in God my Savior". (Luke 1:47)
The Magi, "when they saw the star…were overjoyed". (Matt 2:10)
This is joy that comes from good news, hope fulfilled, seeing God move in very real, tangible ways to address the pain and suffering we are facing, to fulfill the longings of our hearts. With Immanuel, God with us, the reality of heaven is on earth and we can experience that now, in real ways that bring great joy and we can't help but praise God. At times it is the joy of anticipation. It hasn't fully happened, but something has started, something is coming that we trust will be what we hope for. You can see this in the joy and excitement kids are expressing right now in the final countdown to Christmas. Or it is the joy of it fully happening. When our kids are actually opening and playing with presents on Christmas. Or it is the mysterious reality of the joy that comes in interacting with God, the most joyful being in the universe. Kind of like the contagious joy I feel from being around the excitement, energy and wonder my kids feel right now.
In all this there is King Herod and others (likely the ruling establishment) in Jerusalem: "When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him." (Matt 2:3). This king being born would be a direct threat to his rule and all those who benefited from the current socio-economic and political system. Good news and great joy to some, bad news to others. God's presence among us can be good news, bad news or no news…more on this some other time.
For now, these last few days of Advent I bring you great news: God is near, with you, and depending on how you respond to him will bring you great joy.
To sum up these 'Advent' posts: Interact with him in the normal, routine ways that you have come to know, expect him to show up in unexpected ways, ways he may have hinted at beforehand, that may even offend you, doing things that may seem impossible, in you and the community around you, that inspire awe, praise and joy.
Advent: Community Gift Exchanges
When it comes to revealing Jesus' birth, God does something I've seen him do many times: tell multiple people. He talks to Zechariah and Elizabeth, Mary and Joseph about what is going to happen in and through them. But, he also tells Simeon, Anna, the shepherds outside Bethlehem and the Magi. These are just what we have recorded in the birth stories, there could be others, as well as the prophets of old who spoke of a coming king.
It is so encouraging when someone 'confirms' what you are hearing God say to you. It must have been a huge gift for Mary to visit a pregnant Elizabeth (and vice versa), to have Joseph share with her about what the angel said to him during that dream, to have the shepherds and the Magi come, to have Simeon and Anna recognize who Jesus was as just an infant.
It is a powerful antidote for doubt. It provides companionship, resources and support needed to do what God has called us to. It is real strength and courage to walk out the challenges of life in the Spirit.
During Advent, I've been looking at what marked God coming near in Jesus' birth and what that may tell us about how God comes near us today. One of the clear ways he does this is through community. He doesn't just talk to one person or tell one person to go and do it alone. He brings multiple people together, to coordinate, corporately discern, share resources, encourage and strengthen each other—to exchange gifts with each other.
How have you experienced this? Who are people in your life who encourage, help and support you? How has God moved through you in partnering with others?
One of the greatest gifts you can give others is growing in intimacy with God, in discerning and being responsive to what God is saying to you and to others through you. Being open to the Spirit and sharing what God is saying with an aim to edify and in a posture of love—this has been the source of the most significant gifts people have given me over the years. And it can be as simple as asking God: God, when you look at this person what do you see? What is your perspective? What are you up to? Give it a 'go', especially with some of the people you may get (have) to be around this next week of Christmas. You may be surprised how different something/someone so familiar can look—through someone else's eyes.
Advent: That's Impossible
"Zechariah asked the angel, "How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years." (Luke 1:18)
"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?" (Luke 1:34)
I'm sorry, what are you saying God? Based on my current circumstances and what I 'know' this doesn't seem possible. This is not how things are done. How is that supposed to work?
During Advent, I'm looking at ways God came near in Jesus' birth and what that may tell us about ways he is near us today. God has a long track record of doing the impossible. So much so with relationship with God it becomes normal to expect the unexpected and to assume that "nothing will be impossible with God" (Luke 1:37).
I always feel more comfortable telling as complete a story as possible about the impossible—at least my experience of it. I've had God blow my mind and paradigms over and over again, demonstrating all kinds of ways how good, loving, out of control and crazy (based on certain human perspectives) he is. And as I continued to make choices to put myself in situations and do things that depended on God 'showing up' I would continually see and experience things considered dramatic like healings, manifestations, mighty deeds and miracles as well as the less dramatic like peace, joy, perseverance, forgiveness, love for 'enemies', daily resources to handle everyday situations, the ever-present mercy of his presence.
But, like I hear in the stories of Zechariah and Mary and many others in the biblical narrative faced with the risk of relationship with God I have also experienced many other things that go along with the impossible: the personal doubts; the disappoints and pain of expectations unfulfilled; confusion, questioning/judgments and sometimes outright rejection by others; the responsibility of more; the humility and at times humiliation of weakness and vulnerability; feeling out of control and afraid; and the list goes on, particularly for those in contexts of overt persecution.
When it comes to experiencing God as near, of living life in the Spirit, this is all part of it, the risk and the reward. We experience the sufferings of Christ, along with getting to see, experience and do what seems impossible. It's all part of what Jesus tells his disciples they are blessed to experience: "For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it." (Matt 13:17): Immanuel, God with us.
Advent: That's not my Jesus
Every time Joy, our 3 year old, comes back from the library she's got another version of "That's Not My Pony (or Kitty, Dog, Bear, Meerkat…)" "touchy-feely books" published by Usborne. The narrative is set up as if the child/reader is searching for their Pony/Kitty/Dog/Meerkat, etc. Each turn of the page starts: "That's not my meerkat", followed by a picture of a meerkat with a specific part of it's body made of a textured material to be 'touched and felt', and then …"it's cheeks are too squashy" or "its back is too fuzzy" and so on, until the last page when in big bold letters it says "That's my Meerkat!" with a picture of a meerkat with an abdomen made of thick, 'furry' fabric: "Its tummy is so soft."
Throughout Advent I'm looking at how God came near in Jesus' birth and what that may tell us about ways God is near us today.
The Jewish people were looking with expectancy for their messiah. There were different perspectives on how the messiah would come and what he would do. As you read the stories of Jesus' life and ministry in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John you can pick up ways Jesus fulfills different messianic signs and how the crowds and particularly the religious leaders were constantly evaluating as they watched him whether he was "the one" they were looking for. The challenge with Jesus is he kept breaking certain social norms and offending people's perspectives and preferences.
'That's not my messiah…he eats with sinners."
"That's not my messiah…he breaks Sabbath rules."
"That's not my messiah…he was executed by the Romans on a cross."
Those around Jesus were getting the chance to do some "touchy-feely": "We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life…" (1 John 1:1).
It is all over the place in Jesus' birth–unexpected, surprising things that offended social norms: unmarried pregnant teenagers; pregnant senior citizens; genealogies which involve adulterers, murders, liars, oppressors, pretend prostitutes and who knows what else; the subversive birth of a God king in a cave/barn and angelic coronation announcements to socially outcast shepherds.
This can be tricky stuff, sorting out recognizing the presence and activity of a God who will do things in ways that surprise us, yes, but even more offend us. This has all kinds of implications for our discernment. How do you tell the difference between righteous anger, purity or holiness and missing out and misunderstanding what God is doing? Why does God break from some social norms and seem to honor, embrace or at least tolerate others? Does this differ in different situations? Is good news to one person/group, offensive to someone else? Are we testing and assessing if it's God or is God testing us? How much does our own personality, our culture, our theology/thoughts about God, our past experiences and wounds affect how we handle mystery, innovation, aberration (a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one)? So many questions, so many different ways to answer…
But, let's not make this too complex out of the gate and observe something basic: Pay attention to what offends you, it could be God. We usually don't have a problem with the first part: we notice what offends us. (What or who is offending you right now?) And then there is all kinds of different ways we respond. But, how many of us when our perspective or preferences are offended, respond with expectancy: is this you God?
"That's my Jesus…he offends me sometimes."
Advent Continued: Heads Up
Do you notice how God tells people involved in Jesus' birth what is going to happen before it happens? 'Heads up', 'Get ready', 'Be alert' I'm about to do something. Have you ever experienced this in your life?
Throughout Advent I'm looking at what marked how God came near in Jesus' birth and what that may tell us about ways God is near us today.
The angel appears to Zechariah and Mary and Joseph and the shepherds: this is what is going to happen. You've got the 'Magi' discerning what is happening through astronomy and even giving Herod a 'heads up'. God talked to Simeon beforehand, and possibly even Anna. You've got the whole purpose of John the Baptist: to prepare the way. This happens often in God's interactions with people.
It comes in different forms: warning (if you keep doing this the way you are doing it, then things are not going to go well for you, so repent), or a different type of warning (look out something dangerous is coming: 'Joseph hurry get out of Bethlehem'), strategic info (this is what I'm doing, you are/I want you to be part of it, go here, do this, etc.), insight (I'm telling you this now, even though it doesn't make total sense, so you will understand later what is happening), and no doubt more ways…
How have you experienced this in your life?
I can think of several times this has happened to me: I had a whole summer where person after person I met with would tell me about experiences of burn out and depression. I wasn't meeting with them to talk about this, it just kept coming up. After about the fourth time, I started noticing the pattern and decided I better pay attention. I was about to enter into what appeared to be a pretty intense season and I was already tired. Sure enough within a few months I was hitting a wall and I didn't see any reprieve available in my external circumstances. But, in the midst of it I kept hearing God say to trust him, to repent from my approach to my situation or face the consequences of having to go through what I heard about all summer. It was just enough to get me to adjust (unfortunately not fully) and I didn't fully crash and burn. I think of those conversations over the summer as the 'kind messenger' before the 'harsh messenger' was coming if I wasn't willing to listen.
Another example is how God spoke to Ali and I about our second pregnancy being twins. Had he not done this we would have never known we miscarried. Ali tells this story here: www.aliincali.com/home/dreams.
How about for you?
When it comes to God giving us a 'heads up' there is a reality where we may totally miss it, or we may hear it but not heed it, or it becomes a right word at the right time.
Usually when we are living in daily intimate conversation with God in the routine of everyday life (like I talked about in the last post) we will catch it when he says 'heads up…'. But, even when we are not paying attention, God has a way of getting through to us. Although there are times we may just miss it or misinterpret it because it's so 'out of the box' or unexpected–like so many did in around Jesus' birth and life. (I'll talk more about this all in future posts.) One thing is clear, God likes to communicate with us, share information and secrets with us, involve us in what he is doing…let me put it this way, he may be the type of guy who keeps giving you hints about your present before you've unwrapped it or the one who let's it slip about the surprise party.
What 'heads up' could God be giving you right now? How has he done this in the past? Talk to him about it and see what he shows you.
Advent: When God Shows Up
I love Advent. It is all about expectancy that God is near.
Typical for the church calendar, for the big days (i.e. Christmas and Easter) there is some build-up. We look back to when God came near–a baby born right in the midst of the stuff of life. We also look forward with expectancy of his return when all things will be made new, when God dwells with humanity fully—on earth as it is in heaven.
But while we are looking back and looking forward, let's take a look at right now: God with us in the everyday stuff of our lives.
Over Advent I'm going to post periodically looking at ways God came near in Jesus' birth and what that tells us about ways he comes near to us now. Crack open your Bible and read along with me. What marked God showing us he was near in Jesus' birth? What does it look like when God is with you?
First, there were a lot of routine/expected things happening in and around Jesus' birth. It was 'normal' life in so many ways, at least for people living under Roman occupation: poverty/disparity of wealth, unjust taxation, control through the threat of violence, commodification of people through a census, the Jewish expectation of a messiah king who would deliver them alongside the daily disappointment of God's promises unfulfilled. There was the 'normal' of having to sort out the logistics of food and shelter while traveling, pregnancies taking the usual time to reach full term, the expected reactions to things which broke the social customs/norms of the day (pregnancies out of wedlock, what to name a child, etc). Sure we know something new is happening and there are all kinds of signs of it, but all in the midst of the very old, familiar, routine and normal processes of life.
How do you see and experience God 'showing up' as near, with you in the routine, normal processes of life? In what ways, where, when, with whom?
Here are three practical ways to explore this:
1) Take some time to think about it, pay attention and dialogue with God about this question.
2) Go through your day today with expectancy that you will see and meet with God in very normal, routine activities and see what happens.
3) What are the routine ways you intentionally interact with God, ways you expect he will 'show up'? Fill in the blank: "I consistently experience God when I ______________ (do what?, with/through whom?, where?, how?). Or I expect or wouldn't be surprised if I saw, heard, interacted with God when I ____________(do what, with whom, where)" Go to those places, people, things, activities this Advent and spent some time with Immanuel: God with you.
Update…starting up a Durham
I walked into Durham's massive cathedral getting my bearings and trying to find the books. One of the staff in charge of guiding the steady stream of tourists and worshipers verbally reached out to me, "Can I help?"
"Yes, I'm a new doctorate student in theology looking for the 'cathedral' library do–"
"You are very fortunate," she said with a tone and looking at me in a way I could tell she genuinely meant it and somehow appreciated all that was behind, surrounded and what it meant that I was standing there with her, doing what I was doing.
Although she didn't need me to respond, somehow I couldn't help myself, "well, yes, thank you, it is, I am…"
Our conversation continued about where to find the books, but my mind stayed on her comment. Having just met with my supervisor for the first time and taken in Durham University, I was feeling very fortunate. I know not many people would actually want to jump through all the hoops and take all the risks to pay large sums of money and time to write a 100,000 words designed to convince a few people you have a broad understanding of theology while also offering new, unique knowledge. I also know there are people who want to and will not get to. I have resonated deeply with both at different points these last few years. But, to be at a place like Durham University after taking the risk to switch doctorate programs and the gift of seeing everything I've been working on these last few years and really the last 15 years weaving together, each step along the way setting me up better to do the specific research I'm doing now (Reformed reception of charismatic theology and practice) and more to the point better preparing us to help (and equip others to help) more people experience God in everyday life, I am very fortunate.
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Brain power…
Some research suggests 80% of emotional conflict in marriages is rooted in things before the relationship even began. Why? Our brains, specifically implicit memory. Think of implicit as 'automatic' or basically when we run on auto-pilot. There are certain tasks that require us to focus our attention, concentrating our minds on what we are doing, seeing, hearing, learning. Others we do without 'thinking about it'. Like breathing, walking and a large part of relating and communicating with people around us. This sub-conscious or implicit mental activity still requires a significant amount of, well, mental activity. A super-highway of neurons are firing electric pulses sending the information needed to walk, breath, and interpret the world around us. It is simply happening automatically, below our conscious awareness, without requiring us to focus and pay attention.
It wasn't always this way. The neurological super-highways in your brain weren't always there. When you first started to learn how to walk, for example, your brain began the gradual process of bush-whacking a neurological path allowing the flow of information, energy and chemicals needed to coordinate balancing upright on two feet. This initial trail full of exposed roots and potholes became a path, then a road and through repetitive patterns and activity a major interstate without the hindrances of downed trees, stoplights or cross-traffic.
The same process happens when as a child you learned your father furrowed his brow just before an angry outburst. In time, without even having to focus, or think about it, you would see that particular look on your father's face and your brain would brace you for the impact of his anger. The trick is when your spouse makes the same furrowed brow expression, it is because what you are talking about isn't clear and s/he is simply trying to understand you. But your neurons are already firing subconsciously, preparing you for an angry outburst and to respond to your spouse's furrowed brow with whatever method you developed as a child to respond to your father's anger.
The solution, according to Curt Thompson, in his book Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections Between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices that can Transform your Life and Relationships, is to pay attention. Specifically to pay attention to what we are paying attention to. In the case of implicit memories, the key is to identify them and accurately connect them to the actual source or cause of the memory—and to thereby disconnect them from albeit similar but different situations. A classic example of this is the close, implicit, parallels we make between our experience of relationship with our parents and God. Childhood experience of our parents temperament, character, personality, expectations and treatment of us subconsciously shape the norm of what we expect and understand about God, despite what we may cognitively and intellectually say we believe about God.
As the long subtitle suggests, Dr. Thompson uses insights from neuroscience and his counseling practice to explore what he sees as the literal process God uses to 'renew our minds'. It's a fascinating read when thinking about patterns in our lives, our inability at times to change unwanted behaviors, why intimate relationships are so significant and what is actually involved at a physiological level when we interact with God in everyday life.
For the last several decades researchers have aimed to measure and identify what makes people happy. The general conclusions: it's not the extrinsic stuff like wealth, popularity and influence. More important are relationship, care of others, variety in experiences of life and a number of other factors related to genetic and physiological predisposition. Although some of the methodology of the research is debated, the conclusions provide a helpful framework for paying attention to something that we are daily confronted with: our feelings, emotions and experience of life.
I don't want to trip up here on semantics. Many a preacher, teacher and Christian trying to work out daily life in relationship with God have developed whole theologies on the difference between happiness and joy, what is or isn't authentic joy, and all sorts of things in the middle. Trying, I imagine, to get some handle on the complexity and mystery of pain and disappointment and some exclusively 'biblical' perspective on what is a universal human desire for joy.
Take a moment to actually go there yourself. What do you picture when you think about what joy practically looks like? What do you associate it with?
This isn't to evaluate and have a 'right' perspective, but to simply reveal and identify what you think and believe.
And now to the main thing I want to say in this post. In the midst of all the wonderful complexity of what joy even is, how to have it, cultivate and sustain it, I want to share one way I experience joy.
When I spend time with God, I feel joy.
Now, it isn't like it (joy) happens all the time. And unfortunately I can't say joy has been an abiding reality, particularly not this year. I'm sure this can be explained in part by the current tension we live in, where heaven is here on earth already, but not yet fully. So, joy is here already but not yet fully.
I can't help but think the extent I experience joy is also influenced by the extent I chase after false idols and false comforts compared to resting/trusting/depending on God in all the multitude of various ways that looks to me.
Also, I've experienced joy in God's presence, as well as a number of other emotions, experiences and empowerment: God's grief, anger, rebuke, conviction alongside love and love for others, peace, and peace-making…Joy is part of a dynamic ongoing relationship with the Spirit, but seems more central and available than I often recognize.
Believe me I can keep on going, making this all more dynamic and complex. I can break it all down in terms of what I'm doing, how I'm doing it, what causes it, what gets in the way of this. But, really it is that basic. When I spend time with God, even just become aware of his presence, I feel joy.
Too simple, it's simplistic? Maybe.
But, try it out and see what happens. Relax (rest in God's presence/company), Relate (interact with God), Receive (whatever he has for you).
What do you do when you don't know what to do?
Panic? Especially when the pressure is on because a decision needs to be made either quickly or well because the stakes are high. Go with your gut? Think it through? Seek help? Embrace the uncertainty and mystery, shrug your shoulders and move on with life? Probably depends on the situation and circumstances, but more specific to what I'm thinking about: who or what do you go to and how (and maybe even why)?
It is a daily reality in my life. I find myself in situations where I don't know what to do, say or even think for that matter. The gift in these situations, as opposed to when we do know what to do, is we face our limitations. Or, better put, our limitations are in our face. For some of us this isn't very comfortable. But if we pay attention to how we handle situations like this, it can tell us something about ourselves (our personality, decision-making patterns, our basic worldview and more). And more specifically to the focus of this blog post, it can show us what we depend on when we are in a place of dependence.
What I'm suggesting here is pay attention when you don't know what to do or say. What do you feel? What do you think? What do you do? How do you handle it?
Why bother with this? One of the things that comes up consistently in the New Testament, put very, very succinctly is that the Spirit replaces Torah. Torah was the Jewish legal code and then some. It laid out God's special covenant with the Israelites and includes the ten commandments and other specifics about behavior along with the key stories of the first five books of the Bible. For adherents to Torah, it was among other things, a place to go to get guidance on what to do. Over time, where "the law" was not specific enough, rabbis would interpret and flush out more detail to help those who wanted to keep covenant with God know what to do when they didn't know what to do.
In the midst of Paul talking about a new reality, a new covenant, in Jesus Christ and addressing some very specific issues pertaining to a specific community in his day, he makes statements like: "If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit." (Galatians 5:25). Jesus, again addressing a specific circumstance instructs and assures his disciples before sending them out: "But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you." (Matthew 10:19-20). Or Paul again, in the midst of living in the tension of challenges and suffering, "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans." (Romans 8:26).
Anytime being guided by the Spirit, hearing God's voice, discernment, etc. comes up it raises many questions and complexities. But, let's put the focus on a simple practical, even daily opportunity. What do you do when we don't know what to do? As I mentioned, this is easier when you don't know what to do or say or even think, because it makes it just abit easier to see what we depend on to guide us in our life.
In these passages above and many more and in the testimony of so many throughout human/church history there are descriptions of a reality in which: God is near, he is talking, and it is possible to 'hear' and 'see' him. Whom or what do you go to when you don't know what to do or say? How do you do it? And what does it look like for you, in these situations to be aware of and guided by the Spirit? Daily…
Update — Summer 2015
I'm in at Durham
We spent this last year completing a pre-PhD postgraduate degree in Biblical Theology at the University of St. Andrews and have now accepted a place in the doctorate program at Durham University.
Durham is currently ranked the top theology department in the U.K., they specialize in the area I will be working in ("receptive ecumenism") and the supervisor team looks to be a great fit for my research interests: Reformed reception of "Charismatic" theology and practice. It's a doctorate in practical theology, keeping the focus on 'lived' theology rather than solely historical or text based study. So research is centered on how people understand and live out their beliefs in everyday life.
For example, Pentecostal/Charismatic traditions are the fastest growing 'religion' in the world. Emphasis on experience of God's personal presence and power is deeply resonating within postmodern/post-Enlightenment Western culture (and particularly non-Western cultures) and in many ways with younger generations. Strengths in Reformed, mainline traditions are often weaknesses in Charismatic churches–such as shared power, organizational leadership, in-depth biblical and historical interpretation and holistic approaches to social and personal transformation. How can these traditions learn from one another? And specifically in my research interests, how does this impact people in these traditions in everyday life?
Also, Durham is just close enough to Elie we are able to stay in the same community, church and school for the kids.
A New Season
This summer marks a season shift both in our work and our family. Starting in mid-August three of our four will be in full day school, with our youngest about to enter pre-school. This opens up opportunities for Ali and I to partner more closely in the work we are doing.
These last few years we focused on learning and receiving as much as possible. We had questions of our own to answer, experiences and perspectives to solidify and three specific goals: (1) be mentored/apprenticed, (2) immerse ourselves in a predominantly "Charismatic" community and (3) study the power and presence of God biblically and historically. The first two happened at Bethel Church in Redding, CA. The pre-PhD program at St. Andrews focused on the first and third goals. Now we shift to giving what we have been learning away while completing the doctorate. More specifics on this to come.
Thank You
A special thank you to those who have partnered with us financially and in prayer. This past year has been one of the most challenging in our lives, but has positioned us to accomplish specific goals and move into future opportunities. Your partnership is making it all possible and we can't express how grateful we are. We are literally experiencing God's promises fulfilled through you.
Next Steps
- Prepare for an October start at Durham.
- Raise remaining funds for the year ahead.
- Develop specific ways to give what we have been learning and doing away.
Discerning….How to tell when it's God talking to you.
If you've got to the spot where you are open to the first question (What is God saying to me/us?), then there is the second question: How do I/we know? Both of these are huge questions, so simple and so complex all at once. For all kinds of reasons, many don't even ask the first question. ("Wait, you're telling me you hear voices in your head?") But, once you do, don't be scared of the second one. There are ways to help us discern if God is talking to us or if it is someone/something else including just ourselves.
As always with these posts, I like to keep them short so I'm going to share a few thoughts and then more later. Future posts titled "Discerning…" will build on this one. That's the idea anyway.
When it comes to testing what we hear/see/experience I like to think of a 3-legged stool. One leg is the Bible. Another leg is community. The other leg is our spirit.
You can put your full weight down on a 3-legged stool and can trust it will hold you up. Sit on a two or one-legged stool and you better keep both feet on the ground and even an extra hand because that stool is going to be wobbly.
The same goes with the 3-legged stool of discernment. If what you are hearing/seeing/experiencing resonates with scripture, community and your spirit you can trust it and put your full weight on it. Only have one or two of these, well it could still hold you, but be careful. And don't expect anyone else to sit on your stool.
If this all sounds clear and simple, good because it is now going to get a lot more nuanced and complex. How do you test what you are hearing with the Bible, community and your spirit?
For starters, read a Bible. If you are seeking to hear and experience God more and aren't immersed in the witness of Scripture, to me you are one scary dude or dudette. If you are already steeped in the story of scripture, great more to come on interpreting the Bible and hearing God's voice in future posts. For now read the Bible and pay extra attention to how God speaks to and interacts with people. What does he say? What does God seem to care about? What do people who interacted with him do and say in response?
In terms of community do you have people you can share what you are hearing/seeing/experiencing and trust they can hear God for themselves and discern with you? Community can be one of the greatest aids and greatest challenges/hindrances to hearing God's voice. More on this later…
There is also a lot to be said and learned about discerning with our spirit. Even using the word 'our spirit' is tricky and needs some more clarifying. God speaks to us through our emotions, our body, our mind, our soul. Are you in tune with who you are, in touch with your emotions, aware of your body, attentive to your thoughts, familiar with how God interacts with you?
This is all the basic stuff of discernment: the Bible, community and your spirit. And there is so much more…
In the Presence: wave after wave
In the Presence…[attempting a practical look at experiencing God in everyday life: relax, look, listen, receive, react, repeat] I think we can all experience God more in everyday life in ways unique to each of us. This usually involves learning (by doing) practical how-to's while paying attention to deeper ways we understand ourselves, the world and God (our worldview and identity).
Our worldview and identity is like the foundation of a house or even better a skyscraper. It's below the surface but holding the whole structure we can see up. The size, strength, health of your foundation determines the size and type of building you can put on it. All that to say, worldview and practical how-to go hand in hand.
If you see a post titled "In the Presence" the focus is going to be some practical how-to built around what I think are the basic elements of hearing God's voice and experiencing him in everyday life: relax (not striving and at peace), look (focus on the Triune God of the universe), listen (helps when we don't do all the talking), receive (God is near and always giving and speaking), react (respond, obey or whatever makes sense in terms of what you are experiencing/hearing), repeat (this is ongoing and can become as natural as breathing – you know something you repeat over and over through the day without having to consciously think about and it keeps you alive…stop for too long and well you know what happens).
Alright, enough with the intro…let's get to the practical. Across many traditions, throughout history there has been a consistent witness that God is the one initiating and sustaining relationship with us. His is consistently and constantly speaking, interacting and revealing himself. Think of the waves of the sea. One wave comes
after another, in different sets, in different sizes, different tides, but over and over, wave after wave. Some liken God's love to waves of liquid love constantly coming, wave after wave. Want to feel, see, hear the waves of his love? As you'll hear from me over and over there are many different ways that work differently for different people. You can experience the waves by catching and riding them surfing, kayaking, boogieboarding or like a kite surfer jumping off them. Or you can just wade or swim into the water, any depth you want and feel the waves. You can experience them by watching them from the beach. You can just listen to them from inside a house in the night and still experience wave after wave by the sound of them rolling in. You get the picture…
So try this: take a few minutes to write down 10 things you are grateful for. Each of them is like a wave of God's love in your life. (See how I did that with the metaphor there…that takes some skill.) Then for however long you want in a way that is relaxing to you look at, listen and receive from God. Now, take another few minutes and write down 10 different things you are grateful for. Now, take some more time, in whatever way you want, to interact with God. Then, for a third time list 10 more things you are grateful for and just sit back and relax and listen for what comes to mind (thoughts, words, images) feelings (physical or emotional) what you become aware of and react, interact, respond in whatever way seems to make sense…go with the flow, ride the wave, hang loose…alright, I'm done. Give it a try.
Off the Cuff: Chill Out Greg
[I'm writing 'off the cuff' also 'known as shooting from the hip' so it may raise more questions than it does answers, I may or may not even agree with it come tomorrow and it may or may not be helpful…so I love you and good luck]
Ever wake up stressed? I did and I noticed it. Stress can be a bit of an unkind messenger, but still an early warning sign that something is breaking. Kind of like the light 'service needed' that can appear on the dashboard of my car letting me know that the car needs something to keep running the way I'm driving it and if I ignore this light (which I'm tempted to do in the midst of all the other things asking for my attention) I might end up going from needing a simple oil change to having to repair a major part in a broken down engine.
As I was on my second cup of coffee with two kids on my lap, one rearranging the shape of my face the other riding a 'horsey' also known as my knee, Ali, my wife came into the room with her cup of coffee, looking a bit like she got hung upside down by her toes through a good portion of the night (sorry, babe). I asked the obvious question, "Where's my breakfast?" No, just kidding, I really asked, "how did you sleep last night"? "Not well at all. I had a couple strange dreams and Joy was up for awhile. I also woke up feeling really stressed." "Me too," I replied (although I honestly don't remember the part when I was awake in the middle of the night with our 2 year old.)
Sometimes it takes someone else saying it to really notice. And whenever we both feel something, in this case stress, Ali and I have learned to pay closer attention to what is going on, in us, around us, in the spiritual atmosphere and see if we can address it. It is tempting not to. Stress has become an accepted norm in many of the circles I run in. It even at times seems to viewed as a badge of honor or seal of I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing in life.
"Come to me all you who are weary and heavy burdened. Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke will require you to have more to do than you have time to do it and I will evaluate you on unrealistic measurements of how well you do and base how much I value, empower and even love and accept you on your performance. So start dancing monkey!…and you will have rest for your souls."
This is an updated and modern translation based on a loose translation of the Greek of Jesus' words for our more contemporary contexts.
So Ali and I started by addressing the spiritual dynamics around us (which there have been more of recently). I won't go into this much now, some of you might think it strange – and you're probably right. But, we didn't notice much of a shift in our stress which usually indicates that we have believed a lie somewhere along the way and in varying degrees have started to agree with and live out of that lie.
Now there is a lot to this. Many books have been written, classes been taught, psychological, spiritual and medical wisdom offered to address this whole area. Too much for me to take on right now 'off the cuff'. I've come to the conclusion the busyness and stress that comes from a performance oriented mindset and culture is toxic to all things related to intimacy with God and others. More on this another time. The clinical research also makes a strong case of the toxic affects it has on our physical health and well being. So, it makes me wonder, why do we keep doing this to ourselves and others? And is there a sustainable, realistic way out?
Anyway, that's enough for now, I've got to get back to work…I've got so much stuff to do today…
Update: Summer in Seattle, Surgery and Scotland
A look back as we move ahead…
Two years ago we decided to enter into this unique season.
Our goals were clear: be mentored in what it looks like to help people experience God in the everyday stuff of life, immerse ourselves in a community powerfully experiencing God's presence and study the Bible and church history in-depth on all the above. It is amazing how well the first two goals came together in Redding, CA. What we were able to do, see and experience proved incredibly significant for our whole family and our sense of call to help more people experience God everyday. Hopefully you've gotten a sense of this through our updates, blog posts, etc. And now to have the opportunity to do biblical studies at the University of St Andrews–the school I've most wanted to pursue a doctorate. This really is our dream scenario: an initial few years of 'practical' focus on what this looks like in real life, then time spent on historical, interpretative study of the Bible, centered on God's presence with us. We are so grateful how this has come together and for the support and partnership we have received amidst all the challenges and risks we've taken to pursue it. Thank you!
Joy is having surgery for a small hole in her heart called ASD at Children's Hospital in Seattle. The condition isn't 'major' but the procedure to heal it is: open heart surgery, 2 days in ICU, one week in the hospital and six weeks to recover. Pray with us for total healing for our little lady.
We're spending four months of our move this summer in Seattle staying with family, saving on housing costs, studying Biblical languages and interpretation, writing and incrementally transitioning to a new climate in Scotland.
We depart in September for St Andrews. Right now it's mostly logistics: selling things, storing others, packing some and giving the rest away. We're waiting on U.K. VISAs, looking for housing, getting fitted for kilts and working on whatever else we can do on this end.


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Published: August 19, 2003
The New York City Council will meet today for the first time since Councilman James E. Davis was gunned down in the Council chamber by a political rival on July 23. Council members plan to wear white carnations and read a resolution that will celebrate his life and mourn his loss, and an American flag and two red roses will be placed on the councilman's desk. The Rev. Clinton Miller of Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn, who was a friend of Mr. Davis, will give the invocation, followed by statements from Council Speaker Gifford Miller and other members. Mr. Davis's family is expected to attend, including his brother, Geoffrey A. Davis, who is running for his seat. Winnie Hu (NYT)


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Bringing the insights of the Roman Catechism, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Hans Urs von Balthasar together, we can see that Christians are graced to have their own picture of Dorian Gray. The Crucifix.
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7/22/2013 (2 years ago)
Published in Living Faith
Keywords: crucifix, sin, Dorian Gray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Oscar Wilde, Repentance, Sense of Sin, Andrew M. Greenwell
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - Our sins, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "affect Christ himself." The "Church does not hesitate to impute to Christians the gravest responsibility for the torments inflicted upon Jesus." CCC 598.
In support of this teaching, the current Catechism refers to the teaching of the Roman Catechism published after the Council of Trent. The Roman Catechism points out that "sinners," which is to say all of us, "were the authors and the ministers of all the sufferings that the divine Redeemer endured." It further states that "those who plunge themselves into disorders and crimes crucify the Son of God anew in their hearts (for he is in them) and hold him up to contempt . . . . and when we deny him by our deeds, we in some way seem to lay violent hands on him."
What this teaching means is that when we contemplate Jesus in agony, or Jesus scourged, or Jesus crowned with thorns, or Jesus mocked, or Jesus on his via crucis, or Jesus crucified, or Jesus deposed and dead, we are contemplating the real ugliness of our sin. Christ's sufferings reveal the real-though-unseen hideousness of our sins.
The spiritual horror of our sin is hidden from us. We have no eyes by which we can see the interior state of our soul. We cannot see or smell the difference between our soul in sanctifying grace and our soul in a state of mortal sin. The face of a man in a state of mortal sin looks like the face of a man in a state of grace. The hideousness of sin is veiled. The hideousness of sin is something that must therefore be revealed by God.
A conscience properly formed develops a sense of sin, and so, based upon revelation and the use of reason, and prompted by the Holy Spirit, can have some understanding of sin's horror.
Moderns, however, have misconstrued, and so entirely corrupted, the meaning of conscience. "In this age," wrote Cardinal Newman in the 19th century, "with a large portion of the public, it is the very right and freedom of [false] conscience to dispense with [authentic] conscience, to ignore a Lawgiver and Judge, to be independent of unseen obligations." Authentic conscience "has been superseded by a counterfeit, which the eighteen centuries prior to it never heard of . . . . It is the right of self-will."
In their self-will, moderns have also rejected God, and this has exacerbated the problem. If God is dead, wrote Dostoevsky, then everything is possible and nothing is sin.
With man's increasing rejection of God and misunderstanding of conscience, what Blessed John Henry Newman saw as frequent in the 19th century has become even more blatant in the 20th and 21st centuries. The blindness to the hidden horror of sin continues unabated, and if anything has increased manyfold. As Pope Pius XII observed in the 1940s, and as has been repeated by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the archetypical modern sin is "the loss of the sense of sin."
What else explains our society's inability to see the viciousness, and indeed to label as goods, the intrinsic evils of contraception, divorce and remarriage, abortion, homosexual activity, same-sex "marriage," and a whole host of other sins?
The state of our souls and our refusal to recognize the effect of sin on it can be compared to the portrait of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. In that Victorian Gothic novel, the artist Basil Hallward paints a beautiful portrait of the handsome young protagonist, the youth named Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray falls under the spell of the amoral and vicious hedonist Lord Henry Wotton, and begins a life of self-indulgence, which leads to moral dissipation, sexual libertinism, and substance abuse.
As a result of a Faustian bargain, however, Gray remains externally unaffected by his debauchery: he seems to stay in a state of eternal youth. He hides the portrait from public view, but though hidden it becomes more and more disfigured with each of Dorian Gray's sins. The portrait bears the consequence of Dorian Gray's sins.
The portrait represents the soul of Dorian Gray. The portrait also may be said to represent Christ, who, though entirely innocent, becomes disfigured as he suffers the effect of human sins.
Modern man speaks loudly about self-determination, autonomy, freedom, but has not a clue on what it all means. The words self-determination, autonomy, and freedom are frequently used to justify--even legally protect--sin. But there is no self-determination, autonomy, or freedom in sin.
Sin is exactly the opposite of self-determination, autonomy, and freedom. Sin is not only hideous, but is the shackle of slavery. "Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits a sin is a slave of sin." (John 8:34) Christ frees us from our slavery to sin. (Rom. 6:15-18) "It is Christ who sets [our freedom] free: he 'has set us free for freedom' (cf. Gal. 5:1)," wrote Blessed Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor.
In his work The Glory of the Lord, Hans Urs von Balthasar reflects on the poet-priest Gerard Manley Hopkins's notion of "selving," an insight regarding self-determination surely based upon Hopkins' intensely personal Jesuit spirituality of the Spiritual Exercises coupled with his deep commitment to the philosophy of the Franciscan scholastic Duns Scotus, which lays particular stress on the individual aspect of reality. Hopkins's notion of self-determination or "selving" is a far cry from modern autonomy.
As Hopkins expressed it in his poem "As Kingfishers Catch Fire":
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves--goes itself; myself it speaks and spells;
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.
"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame," so
I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -
Chríst - for Christ plays in ten thousand places . . .
Von Balthasar ties the Hopkinsian notion of "selving" or self-determination to the Church's teaching that our sins--which act against our authentic self-determination, and so make us foul and anti-Christ of soul--also strike against the body of the Redeemer and so are seen on the body of the crucified Christ himself. They can be seen as contributing to the death of the Lord.
"[B]ecause the refusal of self-determination, which is present in every sin, is potentially a refusal to choose the archetype of the self, conceived and chosen by God, (which rests in God and ultimately is God himself)," von Balthasar points out, "there is hidden in every sin a manifest tendency to develop into the murder of God: whence sin receives its meaning and structure, and to which it is in fact related by the Cross of Christ."
In Gerard Manley Hopkins's words, the "just man justices," which is to say, doesn't sin, but "keeps grace," the sanctifying grace which "keeps all his going graces." The "being indoors," our soul, "speaks and spells," in other words determines itself, through its external acts. "What I do is me."
As a human person, I am meant to act out "in God's eye what in God's eye" I am. And that which God sees me to be, which is an imitation of Christ (the ideal human), for "Christ plays in ten thousand places." Sin, therefore, is the very opposite of this. It is one's unselving, the killing of Christ in our soul, and the victimization even murder of the Jesus Christ of history.
Dorian Gray's moral dissipation finally results in an act of murder: the murder of the painter of the portrait, Basil Hallward who discovers how foul the portrait has become and so realizes the hideousness of Gray's life. "Does it not say somewhere," the artists pleads before his murder as he recollects the words of the "Fifth Gospel," the Book of Isaiah, "'Come now let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they are red as crimson, they shall be as white as wool?'" (Cf. Isaiah 1:18)
In an act of final impenitence, Dorian Gray sees the hideous portrait and recognizes the foulness of his life and the falsity of his external beauty. Instead of repenting, however, he strikes out at the portrait with a knife. When faced with the truth of how ugly is his sin (which should have been an epiphany, an actual, prevenient grace to conversion), he fights the truth with a poignard. But the effort is in vain, as in his effort to destroy the painting to hide the evidence of his sin, he slays and finally disfigures himself, undone by his own Faustian bargain.
Bringing the insights of the Roman Catechism, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Hans Urs von Balthasar together, we can see that Christians are graced to have their own picture of Dorian Gray. The Crucifix.
Every crucifix or painting of Christ crucified--the more realistic the better--shows us the hideousness of our sins and beckons us to repentance and to healing. We cannot do much better than contemplate the various crucifixion scenes by Matthias Grünewald to realize the horror of our sins. It will do us well, not to lash at Christ on the Cross with the knife of self-justification, but to let it pierce our own hearts, and, if we allow, the very Spirit of God will bring out the tears of sorrow and the words of prayer wherein all healing and reconciliation must begin:
Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci.
Against you only have I sinned, and done evil in your sight. (Ps. 51:4 [50:6]) I am sorry, Lord, for what I've done to you.
Andrew M. Greenwell is an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas, practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married with three children. He maintains a blog entirely devoted to the natural law called Lex Christianorum. You can contact Andrew at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Teens age 12 to 16 are invited to learn about the library's new Akai MPK Mini MKII boards and learn how to manipulate their imagination into musical creations.
The boards comprise one of the newest STEAM Power Maker Kits available at the library and throughout the hometown libraries of the Pioneer Library System.
Space for the program is limited, so registration is required in to attend.
Adult coloring, piano music featured in midday event
Need some time to relax and color your stress away? Norman Public Library West combines the new trend in Adult Coloring with the soothing sounds of the baby grand piano inside the library for a midday event at noon Friday, May 6, at the library.
Local musician Olivia Buthod will spend an hour playing songs on the piano, while fans of adult coloring books or just anyone interested in trying it out can use materials provided by the library for a relaxing time of coloring.
The program is for ages 18 and up, and registration is not required to attend. Join us on this day filled with coloring and music!
Learn about the Psychology of Money in presentation
Go inside the Psychology of Money in a Norman Public Library West presentation, at 10 a.m. Friday, April 29.
Cody Buchholz of Tinker Federal Credit Union will give information about spending, saving and financial habits in a way that shows a person's "money personality", and best practices they can follow to turn negative financial habits and attitudes into productive ones.
The event is for ages 18 and up, and registration is required to attend.
Free concert series features busy April slate
Norman Public Library West invites members of the community to attend several options for free concerts throughout April. Upcoming are the following performances:
Piano Night at the Library, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 12 – Students from the University of Oklahoma's music program will perform on the library's baby grand piano.
Acoustic Sessions, featuring Katie Williams, 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17 – The Norman singer/songwriter will share some of her favorites.
Waytes and Measures Early Music Concert, 4 p.m. Saturday, April 23 – The local classical music group will feature live music of Italy from the Renaissance era.
Lunch and Listen, noon Wednesday, April 27 Spend your lunch with Norman West enjoying an hour of light piano music!
Norman Music Institute, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30 – The Norman Music Institute Vocal All-Stars will perform solos, duets and group performances.
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