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Via Negativa

15 November 2005, 11 am | Poem

Why no!
I never thought other than that God is
    that great absence in our lives,
    the empty silence within,
    the place where we go seeking,
    not in hope to arrive or find.
He keeps the interstices
    in our knowledge,
    the darkness between stars.
His are the echoes we follow,
    the footprints he has just left.
We put our hands in his side
    hoping to find it warm.
We look at people
    and places as though
    he had looked at them, too;
    but miss the reflection.

— R.S. Thomas [via]

Comments

  1. There is more to God than introspective questions without answers.

    Peruse Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

    God is still guiding our lives. We experience what God wants us to. We may feel alone in our investigation but that is the whole idea. A blindfold has been pulled over our eyes so that we may find the truth on our own, regardless God is always guiding us.

    Let’s face it our lives are interesting, reality is the best entertainment ever. (except on T.V.) God has to be setting this show up.

    Don’t ever give up on the future mr. woo, we are all students. Even if we search out all the answer’s in the world, everyone accepts everyone else, and our destiny is revealed, there will still be Pi to calculate.

    “And you, my father, there on the sad height,
    Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” -Dylan Thomas

    ∼ πλ · 15 November 2005, 7 pm · by Robbie D. ¬

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