tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273706721735028462.post2697164417666482094..comments2023-10-31T01:55:31.390-07:00Comments on amma talk - the little way: ... watercoolerMarilynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174997362812620266noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273706721735028462.post-12201895502537444032011-02-05T15:44:24.541-08:002011-02-05T15:44:24.541-08:00MI - Maybe we should think further than the Creati...MI - Maybe we should think further than the Creation of humans - how about all Creation. It was Good, capital G Good. Very Good. And then it was distorted and marred. The beautiful Canadian maple in your front yard - is distorted. So is the rose to bloom this Spring. So are newborn babies. Can you imagine what they would be the day they are Redeemed and Restored to original Goodness? <br /><br />Obviously, I am not in the camp of utter poverty of Goodness. It all, we are all carriers of Goodness, with the grace of an occasional glimpse of what was and will be.Mrs Moosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10410031592226212049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273706721735028462.post-52211455606482942562011-02-03T19:40:02.595-08:002011-02-03T19:40:02.595-08:00If I am really being honest, and not answering wha...If I am really being honest, and not answering what I have been told, but what I believe, I believe that we all carry the flame of life that God set into us, that there is something intrinsically good in us. I believe that the more you know God within yourself the more that you can recognize the divine in others.Lee Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06719334173315036751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273706721735028462.post-10010216914917927832011-02-03T07:10:20.759-08:002011-02-03T07:10:20.759-08:00There is, of course, the Wounded Self, too. The w...There is, of course, the Wounded Self, too. The wounded self is what we hit when we get past the false self but haven't yet learned how to function out of the Imago Dei self.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08448926428018051738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273706721735028462.post-3063765936017083482011-02-03T06:27:57.224-08:002011-02-03T06:27:57.224-08:00I guess I think that there is no good apart from G...I guess I think that there is no good apart from God. Not just good in us, but good anywhere at all. But I think there's a false self that is fed by the world and can often overshadow the inherent God-given good in us. <br /><br />For me when I think of having "good in us" it means will have all the built in know-how to choose the good, the values that make life better with and for each other. We can know good when we see it But in the way a drop of dye taints a cup of water so that there is no way to separate it gain, so do the sins of the world and the sins of ourselves taint us in such a way to skew what we see as good and to form the protection a false self seems to give us. WIthout God, I think we can so bury that "good in us" so deeply that we forget it's there. I don't however, believe it ever disappears. I just think it's really hard to get to do for many people. Does this make sense? I don't really know if it does.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08448926428018051738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273706721735028462.post-87329432321275261902011-02-03T06:08:08.716-08:002011-02-03T06:08:08.716-08:00The question is not about what is lost, but what i...The question is not about what is lost, but what is retained. Is there any good in us apart from what God does? Did the grace of creation and the image of God get wiped out? Or is there a false self that is distorted and broken, but hiding a flame of life that God Himself set into our being.Marilynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11174997362812620266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273706721735028462.post-46905224625251874652011-02-02T19:39:45.086-08:002011-02-02T19:39:45.086-08:00Can we be both basically full of value AND hopeles...Can we be both basically full of value AND hopelessly lost? Is that possible? It's a paradox, I suppose. Somehow, though, I think maybe it is and we are. Maybe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08448926428018051738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273706721735028462.post-77694296481024214092011-02-02T17:58:53.793-08:002011-02-02T17:58:53.793-08:00This is more about the photo than what you wrote -...This is more about the photo than what you wrote - If my kid were in this picture, he would stick out to me. It's a love thing, one heart seeking another. <br />Forgive me, I'm a visual learner.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02257481424066836671noreply@blogger.com