Wednesday, September 14, 2011

COFFEE BREAK 290

+ updated at 12:36pm ESDT on Wednesday, September 14, 2011

+ Here is a great line from a great sermon recently preached by Barrett Lee:

The paradoxical irony of heaven’s economy is that those who keep forgiveness for themselves will lose it while those who give it away will keep it forever.

+ I am back from a month of travel in England and Scotland.  I have been blogging about it at The Abundancetrek Travel Blog.  You will find a link to some beautiful sunset photos.

+ My friend John Shuck is reading a good book and, of course, blogging about it at Breaking Up With God (Part 1) and Breaking Up With God (Part 2) and Meaning of Life, Part 72.  Here is a quote from Sarah Sentilles, Breaking Up With God: A Love Story. She quotes Louis Dupre:

"I need God for all I am, Dupre said. And God needs me for all God is. God needs me to be God. God is the life force of everything that is, he said. God is everywhere, the core of everything that is. Most Christains and Jews are too afraid of pantheism to admit this, he said. Mystics are not afraid of pantheism. They know if God is not in the movement of my fingers, then God does not exist."

2 comments:

John Shuck said...

Thanks John and welcome home! I hope you had a great adventure!

J. Barrett Lee said...

Hi John,
I'm glad you liked the sermon!
Sarah and I were just talking about you last night:
Sarah asked, "Is there anyone in your life right now (other than me) who can ask about how you were doing and you would tell them the truth?"
I'd love to grab some lunch with you in the near future if you've got the time.
I'm extremely interested in this book that John Shuck is reading...