Waiting
I had a dream the other night about a thick, green-covered book called Christian Theology. I'd purchased the book a dozen years ago for a seminary course and hadn't looked at it since.I found it on my bookshelf and put it on a table, and there it sat until I came home from work for lunch one day this week and cracked it open. Tucked inside the front cover was a photocopy of an article titled "Cosmology, Ontology, and the Travail of Biblical Language" by Langdon B. Gilkey. While I sat there eating my peanut butter sandwich and reading the article, I found myself uncontrollably weeping.
I weep when I read systematic theology. I thought I was done surprising myself.
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I'd love to read that article, Bill. Any chance you can scan it and send it along? I suppose weeping is something the body/mind needs to do. It's hard to know what will trigger it, and even why it's as deep and thick as it can sometimes be. I have found in my short one-month marriage periods of happiness that I can't really explain, nor precisely point to what is producing that happiness. Emotions can be outside the reach of thought and consciousness, but are perhaps more poignant and powerful because of that. What role it plays in our living is a mystery to me, and though I'm sure there are no shortage of theories out there, I'm inclined to doubt we'll ever really know. Some things God keeps hidden. I don't mind...it's fun to be surprised. :-)
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