Solomon tells us that “a happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing” (Proverbs 17:22, AMP). God undoubtedly has a sense of humor; we need only look at some of the animals He created (it’s hard not to smile at the sight of a hippo, a monkey, or a puppy). Or think of some of the married couples you know: don’t you think God was smiling at the wedding as He looked ahead to the interaction of the wildly different personalities that will be living together?posts tagged Pope-Benedict
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I read the second piece in Ratzinger’s God Is Near Us; this one is called “God’s Yes and His Love.” I’ve not had time to process a coherent, complete response to it, so in the meantime, I’m simply going to present some passages that stood out to me:
On Jesus washing the disciples’ feet (John 13):
In this scene, the evangelist sums up, as it were, the whole of Jesus’ message, his life, and his Passion…
“not our conception but our Lord”
But what does it mean when we call this God a living God? It means that this God is not a conclusion we have reached by thinking, which we now offer to others in the certainty of our own perception and understanding; if it were just a matter of that, then this God would never be more than a human idea,…
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