Taking God's Picture

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Who’s afraid of the big bad Iran? The bigger, badder USA.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One, Beholding Eye,

What do you see with your “eye”? Some Christians think you are obsessed with sin and that when you look upon us, sin is the main thing you see. I think you still see goodness in your creation, that you’re impressed by all kinds of beauty and grace in human beings. I wonder if the first thing you see isn’t the pain suffered by humans. You experienced something of pain. You’re always trying to do something about it. I expect it bothers you much more than sin does.

Because you see more than skin deep, beauty must involve more than what we usually know as beauty. But that very saying is evidence that we know there is more to beauty in people than outward and transitory appearance. In that awareness, we hopefully come closer to understanding your standards of beauty.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Where will you spend eternity?”

[Nope. He never asked that question of anyone. Apparently not a concern of His.]

D. Blog: Spotting God

I like sitting here, where I look out at the trees. I favor a morning like this one, when the sun brightens the greens and casts shadows on the deck and the ground. But my favorite time is late afternoon, when the light itself carries such warm and varied tones and fills the mountain ridges and valleys with such splendor that my eye perceives but cannot distinguish; my camera can catch hints of this splendor, but can never capture it.

I think that is an apt metaphor for the human mind trying to catch hints of, capture, or convey divinity.