From b5f04621a188ffd07463d66c233601a32e970f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:46:17 -0700 Subject: First complete src/ linking complete --- src/love-as-god.txt | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/love-as-god.txt') diff --git a/src/love-as-god.txt b/src/love-as-god.txt index ec90144..af563a3 100644 --- a/src/love-as-god.txt +++ b/src/love-as-god.txt @@ -18,48 +18,58 @@ 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? \ +[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. +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 -- \ +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, \ +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. +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. \ +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. \ +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 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. \ +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, +does or does not exist? What is life, if no love, -if no God? Maybe this saying, "God is 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, maybe the one \ +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 +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 \ -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 +[what isn't]: largest-asteroid.html +[one-set-of-footprints-in-the-sand]: http://www.footprints-inthe-sand.com/index.php?page=Poem/Poem.php +[Maybe1]: cereal.html +[maybe2]: death-zone.html +[epigraph]: epigraph.html +[made of]: tapestry.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81