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Feb 29 2008

The Firmament

18 responses so far

18 Responses to “The Firmament”

1. # Cathy Kelleron 29 Feb 2008 at 7:58 pm

   Amazing!! You’ right!! Thank you for sharing this!
2. # JohnTon 29 Feb 2008 at 11:46 pm

   There is a lot of math out there in the firmament that points to God. I used to be up on it in college. If you look at the big bang, what contained the singularity? I am not sure if space emerged out of the singularity or if the singularity was contained by space. If space emerged from the bang then what contained the singularity? All the matter in the universe was contained in this singularity from what I understand was an atomic point. Please feel free to school me if I am wrong. Too lazy to read right now.

   The known universe is immense, beyond comprehension, and the more you study it the more it points to God. If they are open to it a person can find God in physics.
3. # Bernice (MC)on 01 Mar 2008 at 7:32 am

   Good morning Gabrielle, thank you for all the inspiration you give to us all.
4. # JustMeon 01 Mar 2008 at 9:44 am

   And if they are open to it, a person can find God in a just-emerged butterfly.
5. # Annon 01 Mar 2008 at 11:12 am

   This is fascinating, Gabrielle. Two men centuries apart, arriving at the same truth, the truth that brings them together as children of God.
6. # teresa_anawimon 01 Mar 2008 at 3:27 pm

   Wonderful!
7. # JohnTon 01 Mar 2008 at 5:19 pm

   . . . or in the fall of the butterfly, or the birth of a child, the coutures of a glacial valley, or even in the real absence . . .
8. # JustMeon 01 Mar 2008 at 7:00 pm

   John, I began a poem today of a downed butterfly.. I hope never to finish it.

   Real absence –like the one Mother Teresa experienced?
9. # gabrielleon 01 Mar 2008 at 10:17 pm

   Hi, everybody! I hope you’ll indulge me if I put up a few more Arthur Young videos. By rights he should be on the Music, Math and Mystics Page, but I just don’t have time to keep it going properly. The man fascinates me; I have no clue what religion he would place himself in, if any, but I love how he always finds the spirituality in the physics, and I grab whatever Catholicity I can out of it… JT, sorry I can’t school you; I just get glimmers and flashes during prayer and then it all disappears the minute I pick up a textbook. All I know is that when I accidently came across this man and listened to the content of his teachings, my whole being felt suddenly alert, with a strange quality of recognizing information that I didn’t think I knew, and yet, at the same time, knowing that much of it was pertaining to things I had been meditating on since childhood, but I had no one to ask about it. Well, that’s not actually true. I asked, but mostly just got that “my, my, you’re a strange child” look in return.
10. # JohnTon 02 Mar 2008 at 12:02 am

    Yes like just Mother’s. Also St. Teresa Benedicta came to mind too. When things are hopeless, that there is no sign of God, even the complete absence speaks to God’s existence.
11. # JohnTon 02 Mar 2008 at 12:50 pm

    http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=qPWfbZDVcok&feature=PlayList&p=B90730367485F457&index=0

    Sting Theory.

    Take a listen to this.
12. # gabrielleon 02 Mar 2008 at 10:03 pm

    Oh, thank you very much, JT. I wish I had several lifetimes to study this. On to Part II, as soon as I can…
13. # JohnTon 03 Mar 2008 at 1:50 am

    Yes you are strange. Be grateful that God made you strange so you can see what others cannot.
14. # freddieon 03 Mar 2008 at 11:34 am

    My spiritual director says “do you want to know about Theology? Then knee down and read saint’s lives…”
    thanks
    br.freddie
15. # WeirdAlmiraon 03 Mar 2008 at 4:37 pm

    Amen, Freddie.

    I once got a “strange child!” look/comment from even the president of the Pastoral council. I really believed for many years after that, because no one had said anything to the contrary, that it was not socially ok to speak briefly of God with personal love in Church meetings… And for years before that, I’d always try to look busy with my thoughts, lest anyone else find my face to be one of those faces, because each and every time, I never knew what to do with a total stranger’s near-confession… it continued to happen anyway. I see more and more that there was a good reason. I see now, too, that some have to be strange.
16. # gabrielleon 03 Mar 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Well, thank you for that positive reinforcement, JT.

    Brother Freddie, I would say that your spiritual director is a keeper! I hope you are doing fine (?)

    WeirdAlmira, I have a history of people I don’t really know opening up to me too – at work, on the bus, at the few womens’ retreats I’ve attended over the years. It can be a bit disconcerting at times, but as you say, there must be good reasons, and we know that the Holy Spirit blows where He will…
17. # terryon 03 Mar 2008 at 9:26 pm

    I love this stuff. I will be watching more of him.
18. # Gabrielleon 05 Mar 2008 at 9:56 am

    Terry, you too??? Well, I have a few more I’m looking forward to sharing here sometime soon.

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