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Allens Neck Friends Meeting |
July 2005
A Question
Sometimes Religion lulls folks into forgettingThe task of religious seeking is to rediscover these
questions.
Otherwise we settle for the questions of modernity
Like, What will I get out of life? And pretend this
is
The question religion is the answer to. But in fact the
Question is more like: What will life get out of me?
The Bible is the answer to the question: What does
God require of human beings? To love God with all
Heart, mind, strength, soul? and to love neighbor
And yourself. This is the Word over and over, shown
In a multitude of words, songs, and colors.
As Rabbi Heschel says, Science gets the blame for the
eclipse
Of religion in modern society. Religion declines, not because it was
Refuted but because it became irrelevant, dull,
oppressive, and
Insipid? In the silence there is an all encompassing Spirit
Calling in that same still small voice that the
prophets heard.
Come, I will do a new thing in you, says the Lord.