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The Firmament

29 Feb 2008 gabrielle  

18 Responses to “The Firmament”

1. on 29 Feb 2008 at 7:58 pm 1Cathy Keller

   Amazing!! You’ right!! Thank you for sharing this!

2. on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:46 pm 2JohnT

   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. on 01 Mar 2008 at 7:32 am 3Bernice (MC)

   Good morning Gabrielle, thank you for all the inspiration you give to us all.

4. on 01 Mar 2008 at 9:44 am 4JustMe

   And if they are open to it, a person can find God in a just-emerged butterfly.

5. on 01 Mar 2008 at 11:12 am 5Ann

   This is fascinating, Gabrielle. Two men centuries apart, arriving at the same truth, the truth that brings them together as children of God.

6. on 01 Mar 2008 at 3:27 pm 6teresa_anawim

   Wonderful!

7. on 01 Mar 2008 at 5:19 pm 7JohnT

   . . . 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. on 01 Mar 2008 at 7:00 pm 8JustMe

   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. on 01 Mar 2008 at 10:17 pm 9gabrielle

   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. on 02 Mar 2008 at 12:02 am 10JohnT

    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. on 02 Mar 2008 at 12:50 pm 11JohnT

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

    Sting Theory.

    Take a listen to this.

12. on 02 Mar 2008 at 10:03 pm 12gabrielle

    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. on 03 Mar 2008 at 1:50 am 13JohnT

    Yes you are strange. Be grateful that God made you strange so you can see what others cannot.

14. on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:34 am 14freddie

    My spiritual director says “do you want to know about Theology? Then knee down and read saint’s lives…”
    thanks
    br.freddie

15. on 03 Mar 2008 at 4:37 pm 15WeirdAlmira

    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. on 03 Mar 2008 at 7:44 pm 16gabrielle

    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. on 03 Mar 2008 at 9:26 pm 17terry

    I love this stuff. I will be watching more of him.

18. on 05 Mar 2008 at 9:56 am 18Gabrielle

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

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