A Majestic Tapestry
The air is in the sunshine and the sunshine in the air. So likewise is God in the being of the soul; and wherever the soul’s highest powers are turned inward with active love, they are united with God without means, in a simple knowledge of all truth, and in an essential feeling and tasting of all good. – Jan van Ruysbroeck (circa 1350)
I cannot comprehend the meaning of this sweeping proclamation [Col 1:16-20]… I am no longer an atomist. The things of faith do not stand alone nor do they stand still. The Fathers of the church have taken me back into a dynamic worldview, an understanding of the interrelationship of all things. The faith, which once looked like an alphabet with everything standing independently and in a row, now looks like a majestic tapestry… The postmodern church is in search of a more dynamic faith. – Robert Webber, Ancient Future Faith, 2004
If you desire to know how these things come about, ask grace, not instruction; desire, not understanding; the groaning of prayer, not diligent reading; the Spouse, not the teacher; God, not man; darkness, not clarity; not light, but the fire that totally inflames and carries us into God by ecstatic unctions and burning affections. – Bonaventure (circa 1250)
Marc Chagall
The Firebird