From 3b37989606c44902d90a3723e197d8c318a302bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:47:42 -0700 Subject: Change verse lines '$' -> '^| ' --- love-as-god.txt | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) (limited to 'love-as-god.txt') diff --git a/love-as-god.txt b/love-as-god.txt index 12a45ca..a12fb67 100644 --- a/love-as-god.txt +++ b/love-as-god.txt @@ -19,52 +19,51 @@ project: link: ouroboros_memory ... -[God is love][], they say, but there [is][] \ -no god. Therefore, how can there be love? \ -And if there is no love, how can there be God? \ -There are things in life, I suppose, \ -that are simply unanswerable mysteries \ -of existence. Maybe this God and love are one. +| [God is love][], they say, but there [is][] +| no god. Therefore, how can there be love? +| And if there is no love, how can there be God? +| There are things in life, I suppose, +| that are simply unanswerable mysteries +| of existence. Maybe this God and love are one. -Maybe there are many loves, instead of one. \ -The difference between [what isn't][] and what is \ -could merely be one of scope. The mystery \ -is how we speak only of one love--- \ -to act as though we know we are supposed \ -to love only one other, or that one other and God. +| Maybe there are many loves, instead of one. +| The difference between [what isn't][] and what is +| could merely be one of scope. The mystery +| is how we speak only of one love--- +| to act as though we know we are supposed +| to love only one other, or that one other and God. -But supposing that one other is God? \ -What then? Is the God-lover to walk alone, \ -supported by God only when He feels He is supposed \ -to support her? What kind of love is \ -this? I would argue in fact this isn't love, \ -this [one-set-of-footprints-in-the-sand][] mystery. +| But supposing that one other is God? +| What then? Is the God-lover to walk alone, +| supported by God only when He feels He is supposed +| to support her? What kind of love is +| this? I would argue in fact this isn't love, +| this [one-set-of-footprints-in-the-sand][] mystery. -How to define two loves as one is the mystery. \ -It's obvious to many there is a thing called God, \ -and just as obvious that there is one called love. \ -Maybe we fool ourselves, we who can't be alone; \ -maybe we don't know what either God or love is. \ -Maybe, and perhaps; but I for one propose +| How to define two loves as one is the mystery. +| It's obvious to many there is a thing called God, +| and just as obvious that there is one called love. +| Maybe we fool ourselves, we who can't be alone; +| maybe we don't know what either God or love is. +| Maybe, and perhaps; but I for one propose -that we as only humans are not supposed \ -to know or understand capital-L Life, that mystery. \ -Isn't it enough to know that God is \ -love, and love is God, \ -no matter which one \ -does or does not exist? What is life, if no love, +| that we as only humans are not supposed +| to know or understand capital-L Life, that mystery. +| Isn't it enough to know that God is +| love, and love is God, +| no matter which one +| does or does not exist? What is life, if no love, -if no God? [Maybe][Maybe1] this saying, "God is love," \ -is less a definition of God what what love is supposed \ -to be. Of these two terms, [maybe2][] the one \ -we should capitalize is Love, that great mystery \ -of chemistry and longing. Maybe "Love is god" \ -is a more fitting [epigraph][] for what life is +| if no God? [Maybe][Maybe1] this saying, "God is love," +| is less a definition of God what what love is supposed +| to be. Of these two terms, [maybe2][] the one +| we should capitalize is Love, that great mystery +| of chemistry and longing. Maybe "Love is god" +| is a more fitting [epigraph][] for what life is -[made of:][made of] Love, that most delicate, most misty \ - -of all emotions, is supposed to be their god, \ -as the one that binds us, that was, that will be, that is. +| [made of:][made of] Love, that most delicate, most misty +| of all emotions, is supposed to be their god, +| as the one that binds us, that was, that will be, that is. [is]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html [God is love]: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A8&version=NIV -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81