God is “within all things but not enclosed; outside all things but not excluded; above all things but not aloof; below all things, but not debased.” Bonaventure (1221-1274) was the first to speak of God as one “whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
Therefore “the origin, magnitude, multitude, beauty, fullness, activity and order of all created things” are the very “footprints” and “fingerprints” (vestigia) of God, according to this Doctor of the Church. Now that is quite a lovely and a very safe universe to live in.
"The powers that be left me here to do the thinking." --Neil Young, "Powderfinger"
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Amen
From Richard Rohr of the Center for Action and Contemplation's daily mediation:
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miscellany,
musings
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