The very idea of God speaking to Creation is mind-boggling. How can God speak? What can the word mean in the case of God? And how can humankind receive God’s self-communication? And understand? Can we understand it? How can we reassure ourselves that we are not deluded ourselves: renaming our thoughts, God’s thoughts? The mind […]
How do we see the world? Commonly people are held to fall into one of two categories: those who see a glass half-empty or a glass half-full. It is a start for considering how we might typically see the world, but both these are rather static world-views. St Paul’s world-view is very different. He sees […]
The Responsorial Psalm on Sunday responds to the assurance of the fruitfulness of God’s word, spoken for our good, and – here especially – a word spoken for the good of Creation as a whole. It is understood in the Scriptures that God’s word is never just ‘words’, but is an action. In his speaking […]
