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April 29, 2009
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re-post > 08-06-2002 > we already had it Apparently, I was following up, as it happened, on the post from the day before, and not even on purpose - cool. This is important stuff I think - the concept. I like the memory of going to High On Rose too, which no longer exists - back when there was smokin' goin' on in bars in Lexington. Went to High on Rose again last night to check out the open mic night with Ashley McGlone. My boy up and played a couple of tunes last night and did very well. I think he was well received. That was fun. Had a couple of short conversations with some guys I met there at the bar - interesting. I hope Brian only drank the 4 some kind of Vodka drinks I saw him have - girlfriend pain. Just before I went to bed last night, after I showered the smoke smell off me, I reached down into the packed drawers of my nightstand to find some kind of book. I pulled out Merton's Disputed Questions. I had one little green tag stuck in the middle of it, marking a quote - a very providential quote as it happens. Here it is and you'll see what I mean. In the story of the fall of Adam, we see the tempter apparently suggesting that man attain to what he already possessed. Eritis sicut dii. But man was already "like unto God." For in the very act of creation God had said: "Let us make man to our image and likeness" (Genesis 1:26). Satan offered man what he already had, but he offered it with the appearance of something that he did not have. That is to say, he offered man the divine likeness as if it were something more than God had already given him, as if it were something that could be his apart from a gift of God, apart from the will of God, or even against the will of God.How about that sports fans? Pretty wild. Just driven home all the more. The thing we seem to think about most often in relation to this "fall" business is "disobedience" to a specific command. God said "don't eat that stuff" and Adam did, and he's out. This is a huge problem in our notion of what it means to have a relationship with God I think. Is it based on these legal notions of keeping and breaking - about doing some thing or some series of things in order to be acceptable to Him and to ourselves? I hope not. No. It's about being who we were created to be, about our allowing Him to create His likeness in us and not trying to create it ourselves in some false way, even if it seems more apparent. 0 Comments:| permalink | e-mail me | 
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