"The Judeo-Christian Scriptures are at once the repository and the great guardian of the Christian world picture - that is, the incarnational symbolic system."
"We are mythic beings: we live by and in our symbols."
Leanne Payne - Healing Presence
I can't explain why these phrases grabbed me, but they did. Maybe because they speak to the "see-do-get" cycle of life. The life we get flows from the way we live (our actions...what we do) which originates in how we see life (our world view).
There is a sense that all of life is alluding to something more, something bigger than what is immediately in front of me. Then there are moments when I'm sitting alone with the Scriptures that seem to elevate my sense of reality. I can't conjure them up, nor adequately explain them...simply be grateful. In those moments I'm reminded how small, limited, and frail I am and how wondrous and incomprehensible God's love is.
This Sunday (Palm Sunday) we enter into the heart of one of our most powerful "symbolic" seasons as followers of Christ...Easter. May God grant all of us a renewed sense of His glory and our role in His story.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Paul, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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