I believe we are over halfway through Lent and I am not halfway through this book. I really need to get hopping. So Thomas has graduated Columbia and he has decided to pursue a graduate degree in Literature as he has decided he wants to be a college professor. He picks 18th century English Literature and decides to focus on the poet William Blake. [ I had never heard of him, google says he is a poet, artist unappreciated during his life but now considered one of England's greatest poets.] Blake convinces him that the only way to really live life is to live in a world that is charged with the presence and reality of God. So now he realizes that he should believe but confesses that it was more an intellectual realization than anything else. He then continues with;
The life of the soul is not knowledge, it is love, since love is the act of the supreme faculty, the will, by which man is formally united to the final end of all his strivings--by which man becomes one with God. pg 191
So knowledge of God is great but that is not enough. We have to love God and love one another--that is life for the soul. I am reminded of 1 Corinthians 13 If I speak in the tongues of men or angles, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. In other words we have to act. Are we going to move the world closer to God today or not?
My prayer for today; Lord, thank you for giving me knowledge of You, help me move my will to love You more dearly by acting out my love for You. I don't really want to be a clanging cymbal. Amen
Pax
Joe
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