{"id":950,"date":"2013-07-18T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2013-07-18T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:38:53","slug":"poem-god-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/18\/poem-god-is-love\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: God is Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

God is love<\/span>
\nAnd everything else<\/span>
\nIf there were anything else<\/span><\/p>\n

The classic formulation of “God is love” is attractive to many people of good will; perhaps, because of its implicit assertion of nurturing life as a primary characteristic of reality, and of its tension with much of religion’s failings in human history in regards to its parochial quests for power, status, and control. \u00a0Nonetheless, in our post-modern world, there is much disagreement over the theology, philosophy, and worldview related to theism and the nature of ultimate reality. \u00a0Many question whether there is a God transcendent, “separate” from creation [God and everything else]. \u00a0These arguments are very dry and often harsh, in contrast to love. \u00a0Personally, I find such arguments intellectually interesting but a poor meal for my hungry heart. \u00a0In this short poem, I play with the ideas of theism, leaving them unresolved, unsolved…and yet, love stands — and my heart cheers! \u00a0Poetry is both an art and a science, provoking beautiful methods to our madness, soothing our savageness without spoiling our untamed hearts. \u00a0I consider writing poetry as the mind making love with the heart — two faculties united in producing a mystical yet palpable world. \u00a0As Pascal said, “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” \u00a0May your reason serve love, and when you come to the end of reason, may you find love there waiting for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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