"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Community, The Imago Dei, and "...the words of the prophets...."



While at the Thirsty Pagan last Wednesday night I noticed something written on a piece of paper behind the bar up on the wall - and the lyrics from a Simon & Garfunkel song, The Sound of Silence came to mind,

"'The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.'
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence…"

What was written on the wall there was this, "Religion is for people that are afraid of going to hell and spirituality is for people who have been there..." I thought about that and realized the profoundness in it and then I wanted to change one word to make it more true and relevant. So I re-wrote it with Jesus rather than spirituality.

So now it is, "Religion is for people afraid of going to hell and Jesus is for people who have been there..." Simon and Garfunkel were right about where you may find the words of the prophets?
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