John Said:
God is open. Incandescent. Welcome mat out.
Is that what follows
or what will or might follow?
Logic is the study of what follows.
Maybe. Probably. Certainly. Impossible.
Could be, who knows? Non sequitur.
Maybe it is possible, after all.
God created it, but cannot lift it--
without our help.
Somewhere, in all of this,
there is a big, big rock.
And it is falling,
gathering moss and souls
and nations and centuries.
Can it be stopped?
Not by Sisyphus.
Not without the holy dynamis
Is He in it with us?
Did it hit him?
Or is it
the other way around? Or . . .
What do I know?
God knows.
But what does he know?
And when?
Open question.
Curtain opened,
not completely.
About Me
- WRoark
- Professor of Christian Studies and Philosophy for more than thirty years. Author of Think like an Octopus: The Key to Becoming a Good Thinker. Now the blogosphere is my classroom. I am a contrarian, challenger of the status quo, a voice from a differing perspective. When I retired, I took off my watch, my shoes, let others answer the phone, and refuse to hurry, unless life is at stake.
1 comment:
This is an excellent poem and it communicates beautifully what you believe about God's relativity and how that particular kind of relativity necessitates an open future. In the years since I have left HPU I have grown to disagree with your ideas on open theism and to a certain excent God's relativity, but your logic is clear and consistent and your
argument persuassive. It demands that I once again examine what I believe about God's providence.
-John Norwood
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