tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536580173838463270.post2785109215201656797..comments2024-03-01T16:40:24.819-07:00Comments on To Square a Circle: defining termsBarbNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12088366782915923507noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536580173838463270.post-75893060106569355622015-11-09T07:16:41.564-07:002015-11-09T07:16:41.564-07:00One of my favorite insights from C S Lewis is that...One of my favorite insights from C S Lewis is that all of our images of God are "idols" (mistaken ideas of God shaped by our histories and our own wishful thinking) and all our prayers are arrow prayers, aimed in the general direction of that idol.<br /><br />--from C S Lewis' poem "footnote to all prayers"<br /><br />"...all prayers blaspheme<br />And all men in their praying, self-deceived, address<br />The coinage of their own unquiet thoughts, unless<br />Thou in magnetic mercy to Thyself divert<br />Our arrows, aimed unskillfully, beyond desert;<br />And all men are idolators, crying unheard<br />To a deaf idol, if Thou take them at their word."Cheery-Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027825286045547856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536580173838463270.post-1281894698358973102015-11-08T18:52:47.440-07:002015-11-08T18:52:47.440-07:00The spirit of love and goodness and creativity and...The spirit of love and goodness and creativity and life that binds the universe together? That's about as close as I can get to what I mean when I say God. YMMV obviously. <br />KarenBnoreply@blogger.com