Advent: Respect for the Mystery

12/9/2015

"Behold I tell you a mystery ... we shall all be changed." 1 Cor 15:51

"The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty ... We retain the child in us to the extent that we honor the mystery. Children have open, wide awake eyes, because they know that they are surrounded by mystery. They are not yet finished with this world; they still don't know how to struggle along and avoid the mystery, as we do. We destroy the mystery because ... we want to be Lord over everything and have it at out disposal. Living without mystery means knowing nothing of the mystery of our own life, nothing of the mystery of another person, nothing of the mystery of the world. It means taking the world [and other persons] seriously only to the extent that [they] can be calculated and exploited. Living without mystery means not seeing and even denying the crucial processes of life."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger (18), edited, Italics mine

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8/26/2019 09:48:51 pm

They say that we need to allot a room for mysteries on our own life. Well, that is something that we need to keep among ourselves. Keeping a mystery could mean allowing ourselves to discover more about ourselves, and that is something that we need to stick into our minds. That message that came from Mr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was worth pondering for. Because if you are going to think about it, he is making sense on his statements and we need to learn from him.

Advent: Respect for the Mystery

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