Is It Any Wonder?

If the direct experience of God is simply made up of an awareness of and a response to the love of someone whose thoughts are not our thoughts [and] whose ways are not our ways then it is no wonder that people - religious and non-religious alike - who have no experience of this continue to try to pin down God through explanatory statements and accepted principles and methods of analysis.

Consider these:

• Is love an object or an event?

• Is God present to us through an idea in our heads or in an act?

• How do words and obedience compare with a permeating presence?

Is it any wonder that those who are unable to relate to others in a valid, direct, loving encounter are not also handicapped and distorted in their expectations, perceptions, and explanations concerning their encounter with a living, loving God?

Any failure in this is certainly not God's fault...

There you go

Swimming deeper into mystery

Here I remain

Only seeing where you used to be

Stared at the ceiling

'Til my ears filled up with tears

Never got to know you

Suddenly you're out of here

Gone from mystery into mystery

Gone from daylight into night

Another step deeper into darkness

Closer to the light

Walked outside

Summer moon was nearly down

Mist on the fields

Holy stillness all around

Death's no stranger

No stranger than the life I've seen

Still I cry

Still I begged to get you back again

Gone from mystery into mystery

Gone from daylight into night

Another step deeper into darkness

Closer to the light