Stephen Vincent Benét

Adrienne Von Speyr

nothingness, limitedness, grace and GOD

... man's nothingness is overcome. It has been absorbed into holiness.  This indivisibility is GRACE, and it comes from GOD. GOD takes care of His own to the point of completely enveloping and covering them with His grace. But they are not buried underneath it, not lose their distinctive face, not paralyzed by the weight of an excessive giving.

Rather GRACE permeates, saturates and SETS AGLOW their entire being and places them in a new physical condition. ...

Limitedness,  does not stand in opposition to what GOD is and is capable of. After all, GOD created man in His image, and

an image can not be in contradiction to what it represents. ...

Yamma Ensemble: Nigun Tamir

Yamma Ensemble

Dancing Lovers

 

Sinclair Lewis

    "I know, Dr. Binch, I know, but I mean in its sacred sense, as of David dancing before the Lord."

    "But I feel there was a different meaning to that. If you only knew the original Hebrew - the word should not be translated 'danced' but 'was moved by the spirit.' "

    "Really? I didn't know that. I'll use that."

    They all looked learned.

    "What methods, Dr. Binch," asked Elmer, "do you find the most successful in forcing people to come to the altar when they resist the Holy Ghost?" 

From Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

First Signet Classics Printing, February 1967

First Signet Classics Printing, December 2007

First Published 1927

Peter Pringle

 

Rumi

You that give new life to this planet

you that transcend logic, come. I am only

an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let fly.

Rumi: Edited & Translation by Coleman Barks

Harper Collins 2007

From "A Bowl Fallen From The Roof"