One of my regular daily reading times is during my morning ablutions (nice was of saying it). This morning I was reading a piece from Christian Century and was struck by a group of women and how they processed scripture. "Aha, another blogging opportunity. My plan is to to take a gospel story and put it on the the blog each day or so with the hope that we will all read it, and make our comments on it as we relate it to ourselves. I am particularly interested in the wee one responses as they often have the most revealing insights; i..e "God stopped throwing it (snow) at us." I will most often use my own gospel translation hopefully to stimulate me to finish the book. But I also want to include other scriptures such a the Koran for the same purposes. This is not meant to be heavy but again just stimulate family conversation on important things. Feel free to comment or not, it's up to you as always.
At any rate, from no particular here comes the first one. [Sidenote: I have found approximately 214 gospel stories in the four gospels and some apocrypha, they are without verses and they were stories, not a bunch of stand alone texts for bad preachers.
Story #53 Good Vision
"How you see determines how your body is going to act and operate. If you see well, you won't bump into trees and will be able to navigate well. However, if you don't see well, you're likely to trip over a lot of things. Open your self to the light and good vision, it's better than stumbling around in the dark.
"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light."
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Wow Heather, I haven't heard someone speak of Plato's republic in a long time. In college I wrote a paper about Plato's divided line [A-B the world of shadows, cave stuff; B-C the world of thing seen (out of the cave); C-D mathematical thought and D-E dialectical thought. I added to that E-F as transcendent thought (faith stuff, things you know that come from outside of your own resources.) E-F wasn't necessarily chronological but open to one between A to E. I like the idea of being open to all possibilities even if the dazzle us. Perhaps it's like when the twins were doing the Abott and Costella routine and in the doing got its humor all the better. Just thinking.
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