After reading “Reading for Transformations through the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins” it encouraged me to try lectio divine with all my reading. I have tried it once or twice with my daily devotions and truly enjoyed it. However, it never stuck in my routine. Perhaps involving this in my literature reading, not only in my devotions, can help me understand what I am reading. However that was my only thought on this article. For some reason I found it hard to read and I didn’t get much out of the article.
Although, I did find Darkness, Questions, Poetry, and Spiritual hope intriguing. The question “Where is God when the word is falling to pieces?” is one I get asked almost on a daily basis at work. It is also a question I find very difficult to answer. The truth is I don’t know. I know that God is in Heaven and I know that when I am going through something I am always told God has never left me. Perhaps that is true but I am not sure how I could explain that to a nonbeliever, being that I am a “baby” believer myself. However reading through this article opened my eyes to the darkness of this world. I realized that maybe I had been looking at it the wrong way. Instead of just being confused in the darkness I should have hope.
“Jesus Promises, ‘I will never leave you.’ The presence of God with us in the dark makes it possible for us to sit with the question of darkness without being destroyed by madness. “ I really liked this quote and it is something that I have written down to keep. Seeing it explained like this makes sense in a weird way. I still find the concept hard to explain, yet I know I have the answer I was looking for.
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There are things that are difficult--or impossible--to say in a straightforward way. That line you highlight in your last paragraph is, I think, something like poetry in that to understand what it means requires more than just "understanding" as you might understand a math concept--perhaps it's a deeper or higher or more artistic kind of knowing. So I'm very glad to read, in particular, your last sentence: "I still find the concept hard to explain, yet I know I have the answer I was looking for." Let it be so.
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