[lit-ideas] Re: Faith
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 00:25:07 -0500
I've been trying to follow Mirembe's lead of treating the question of Faith
poetically. We all live by faith. Faith that there really is a world out
there and that we're in it. But all my attempts have been more that a bit
jejune -- as bromide stuffed as a graduation speech. Faith isn't about
God -- unless you want it to be. Faith is about oneself mostly. About what
you want to happen. About your attitude towards yourself and all others.
Forget God. 'God' is just a word. No one wants God. We all only want
ourselves to blossom and suck in the sun and be diddled by bees. God is
having people take notice. Having people care. That's God. That's all God
ever is. Joy in our selves. Faith is faith in life. And since I can't do
justice to Mirembe's musings I offer Merwin's GIFT which I find rich in
intepretation possibilites,
GIFT
I have to trust what was given to me
if I am to trust anything
it led the stars over the shadowlesws mountain
what does it know remember in its night and silence
what does it not hope knowing itself no child of time
what did it not begin what will it not end
I have to hold it up in my hands as my ribs hold up my heart
I have to let it open its wings and fly amontg the gifts of the unknown
again in the mountain I have to turn to the morning
I must be led by what was given to me
as streams are led by it
and braiding flights of birds
the groping of veins the learning of plaints
the thankful daysbreath by breath
I call to it Nameless One O Invisible
Untouchable Free
I am nameless, I am divided
I am invisible, I am untouchable
and empty
nomad live with me
be my eyes
my tongue and my hands
my sleep and my rising
out of chaos
come and be given.
> <><><>
> faith is not irrational and is most certainly
> compatible with reason
> on the other hand
> the decision of faith is not a rational one the
> decision of faith may in fact appear
> irrational
>
> think of it
> levels different
> ledges of
> rationality accessible through
> leaps
> big ones or little but all leaps
> of faith how else are levels of reason
> joined
>
> think of it
> levels of reason flavors of it
> colors and whirlpools and rainbows
> of it who needs a man for all
> seasons we can have
> a leaping person for all
> reasons all of them
>
> <><><>
> Best, MN
>
>
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