Comments on: Intimacy with Godde: Session 3 http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/intimacy-with-godde-session-3/ Emergent Expressions of Spirituality in the Cape Town area Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:19:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: squarepig http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/intimacy-with-godde-session-3/#comment-341 squarepig Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:52:55 +0000 http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-341 Thanks for this, encouraging..in strange new waters, I am again on the endless search for God. Thanks for this, encouraging..in strange new waters, I am again on the endless search for God.

]]> By: The Weaving Between http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/intimacy-with-godde-session-3/#comment-328 The Weaving Between Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:12:43 +0000 http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-328 I am reminded of a couple that think they know each other well enough that they no longer need to talk, have discussions, share verbally and explicitly their thoughts and experiences. So often one or other in that partnership realises they no longer know the person they sleep next to ... I am still getting to know God and I want to keep actively getting to know God for the rest of my life. I am not content to have any sort of abstract relationship with God or anyone else. I am reminded of a couple that think they know each other well enough that they no longer need to talk, have discussions, share verbally and explicitly their thoughts and experiences.
So often one or other in that partnership realises they no longer know the person they sleep next to …
I am still getting to know God and I want to keep actively getting to know God for the rest of my life. I am not content to have any sort of abstract relationship with God or anyone else.

]]> By: Nic Paton http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/intimacy-with-godde-session-3/#comment-327 Nic Paton Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:56:39 +0000 http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-327 Pushing forward to knowing / not knowing - what I see there is a continual process between knowing and unknowing. This mystical rhythm I see as a key part of orthodoxy, and not a deviation from it. From this perspective you are leading us consciously towards the "knowing" pole of the dialectic. I am in full support of this, although it may come to pass that the fullness of knowing is experienced mystically <B>in community</B>: through those with most gifting. But I remain open to finding the thing which has eluded. "May our emerging spirituality be characterised by a rediscovery of Godde’s Person." Amen. Pushing forward to knowing / not knowing – what I see there is a continual process between knowing and unknowing. This mystical rhythm I see as a key part of orthodoxy, and not a deviation from it.

From this perspective you are leading us consciously towards the “knowing” pole of the dialectic.

I am in full support of this, although it may come to pass that the fullness of knowing is experienced mystically in community: through those with most gifting. But I remain open to finding the thing which has eluded.

“May our emerging spirituality be characterised by a rediscovery of Godde’s Person.” Amen.

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