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From Carmel To Horeb
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Tuesday, 06 July 2010 07:20 |
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The Wind and fire
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Key Words |
Voice Theophany Divine Communication |
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From Carmel To Horeb |
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Source Author |
Buber, Martin |
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You wanted to descend like a storm wind
And to be mighty in deed like the tempest
You wanted to bow being to being
And bless human souls whilst scourging them,
To admonish weary hearts in the hot whirlpool
And to stir the rigid to agitated light
- You sought me on your stormy paths
And did not find me
You wanted to soar upward like a fire
And wipe out all that did not stand your test
Sun-powerful you wanted to scorch worlds
With sudden force to kindle a young nothingness
- You sought me in your flaming abysses
And did not find me
Then my messneger came to you
And placed your ear next to the still life of my earth
Then you felt how seed after seed began to stir
And all the movements of growing things encircled you,
Blood hammered against blood and the silence overcame you
The eternally complete, soft and motherly
- Then you had to incline upon yourself,
Then you found me |
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Elijah on Horeb (1 Kings 19) |
The shadow of the too important
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Key Words |
Ego Pride Zeal Loyalty Fundamentalism Commitment Fanaticism |
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From Carmel To Horeb |
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Heschel, Abraham |
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It is the pattern of the impeccable which makes the average possible. It is the attachment to what is spiritually superior: loyalty to a sacred person or idea, dovotion to a noble friend or teacher, love for a people or for mankind, which hold our inner life together. But any ideal human social or artistic if it forms a roof over all of life, shuts us off from the light. Even the palm of one hand may bar the light of the entire sun. |
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The rise of Elijah (1 Kings 18-19) |
Decision and commitment
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Key Words |
Decision Commitment Alone Discipleship Atonment |
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From Carmel To Horeb |
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Source Author |
Heschel, Abrahm |
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God is not alone when discarded by man. But man is alone. |
Priesthood of pressing needs
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Priorities Integrity Faith Role Presentation Service Priesthood Ministry |
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From Carmel To Horeb |
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Updike, John |
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We stand brothers, where we stand, in our impossible and often mischievously idle jobs, on a boundary of opposing urgencies where there is often not space enough to set one's feet - we so stand as steeples stand, as emblems; it is our station to be visible and to provide men with the opportunity to profess the impossible that makes their lives possible. The Catholic church in this at least was right; a priest is more than a man, and though the man disintegate within his vestments and become degraded beyond the laxest of his flock, the priest can continue to perform his functions as a scarecrow performs his. |
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