Re: God's Will

[barbara wolf <lupa@biddeford.com>]

At 09:47 AM 1/23/96 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
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> There are dimensions of our existence that are beyond our immediate
>perceptions.
>
>Maybe a better word than "after" is "beyond;" as in "life beyond death," or
>even, "Life beyond life."  It speaks not of our inability to comprehend the
>end of ourselves, but our ability to grasp transcendence.>

Precisely.  The best we can do, it seems to me, is to allow ourselves to be
aware of God's grace as we perceive it.  We don't seem to be structured
(genetically, physically) so as to know God's will *as it is*, only as we
are able to grasp it.  I also think that most of our theological debates
grow out of our inability (perhaps even unwillingness) to admit that God is
indeed transcendent, that He is not really like us (we are only to some
degree like Him), and that He is beyond our logic and reason (to say nothing
of our capacity to live with our knowledge of "Good" and "Evil"--if only the
Adam/Eve had left that tree alone!).

All of which makes me profoundly grateful for the Mighty Acts.  If I can't
understand why God's will often seems (at best) peculiar and even (at worst)
cruel, at least I have been afforded the grace to live with it in some
measure of peace!

Barbara Wolf