hmmm...so, it's been awhile. this seems to happen to me--i start something (like a blog) and then, after a few posts i fizzle out. i've been thinking about posting again, but haven't felt like i had something to say...or that i knew how to say what i want. but that's the actual point of this blog! stream of consciousness...stream of consciousness. oooohhhhhmmmmmmmmmm =).
well...i just had a thought. now, don't read too much into this. it's just musings (stream of consciousness, remember =). i don't have final answers...i never will. but this struck me.
so many parents of glbtq men and women have developed the ability to love and accept their children despite what they might still believe about homosexuality. these parents may still bristle when the topic arises; they may grin and bear it but still invite their children's significant other over for dinner, for a vacation, for the holidays; they may pray every night for their child to change, but when push comes to shove they refuse to cut them out of their lives. if human parents are capable of this, can God maybe also? i know, God is God and thereby still has the whole holiness thing to deal with. but of all the attributes we ascribe to God--justice, judgment, mercy, purity--the one that the Bible puts most simply and directly is that "God is Love". what is this mystery?! what is this paradox found in God Oneself? God is Holy (set apart--a line of division is implied in this attribute) *and* God is Love (the personification of the words "and" and "but"--me "and" you, you do this "but" i still accept you). try to hold these two concepts in your mind at once. don't call me if your brain explodes ;).
anyway...i'm not going to muddy this any further with any more words. it's a little like a koan. take this thought, let it mull around like a grain of sand in your oyster and let's hope a pearl comes out the other side.
