I frequently quote Poetry editor Christian Wiman on this blog because he is a Christian writer in the true, thorny, mysterious, raptured and tormented senses of the phrase, and on top of that, an eloquent observer of his own mental processes. His recent article from The American Scholar, “Hive of Nerves”, is one example. Reflecting on the constant internal and external noise that pervades modern consciousness, and our attendant anxiety, Wiman proposes that this is a spiritual problem, not merely one of scheduling more “down time” into our days.”How does one remember God, reach for God, realize God in the midst of one’s life if one is constantly being overwhelmed by that life?” he asks:
…Christ speaks in stories as a way of preparing his followers to stake their lives on a story, because existence is not a puzzle to be solved but a narrative to be inherited, and undergone, and transformed person by person. He uses metaphors because something essential about the nature of reality—its mercurial solidity, its mathematical mystery and sacred plainness—is disclosed within them. He speaks the language of reality—speaks in terms of the physical world—because he is reality’s culmination and code, and because “this people’s mind has become dull; they have stopped their ears and shut their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes might see, their ears hear, and their mind understand, and then they might turn to me, and I would heal them.”
I don’t think the “answer” to the anxiety felt by everyone at that dinner party is Christianity. In fact I’m pretty sure that is not the case, as we represented several different traditions (including no tradition)—and anyway Christ is not an answer to existence but a means of existing, and I am convinced that there is no permutation of man or mind in which he is not, in some form, present. (This from the Catholic nun, Sara Grant, speaking about, and quoting from, the Kena Upanishad: “Brahman is not ‘that which one knows,’ but that by which one knows, as though a crystal bowl were aware of the sun shining through it. ‘When he is known through all cognitions, he is rightly known.’” But it seems to me you could quote Christ himself in support of this idea: “To believe in me, is not to believe in me but in him who sent me; to see me, is to see him who sent me.”)
I do think, though, that both the problem of, and the solution to, our individual anxiety is a metaphysical one. Some modern philosophers (Heidegger, Kierkegaard) have argued that existential anxiety proceeds from being unconscious of, or inadequately conscious of, death. True, I think, but I wonder if the emphasis might be placed differently, shifted from unconscious reaction to unrealized action: that is, our anxiety is less the mind shielding itself from death than the spirit’s need to be. It is as if each of us were always hearing some strange, complicated music in the background of our lives, music which, so long as it remains in the background, is not simply distracting but manifestly unpleasant, because it demands the attention we are giving to other things. It is not hard to hear this music, but it is very difficult indeed to learn to hear it as music.
Who is it that clasps and kneads my naked feet, till they unfold,
till all is well, till all is utterly well? the lotus-lilies of the feet!I tell you it is no woman, it is no man, for I am alone.
And I fall asleep with the gods, the gods
that are not, or that are
according to the soul’s desire,
like a pool into which we plunge, or do not plunge.The operative word in these lines from D. H. Lawrence, who wasn’t a conventionally religious person, is soul. It’s a word that has become almost embarrassing for many contemporary people, unless it is completely stripped of its religious meaning. Perhaps that’s just what it needs sometimes: to be stripped of its religious meaning, in the sense that faith itself sometimes needs to be stripped of its social and historical incrustations and returned to its first, churchless incarnation in the human heart. That’s what the 20th century was, a kind of windstorm-scouring of all we thought was knowledge and truth and ours—until it became too strong for us, or we too weak for it, and “the self replaced the soul with the fist of survival” (Fanny Howe). Anxiety comes from the self as ultimate concern, from the fact that the self cannot bear this ultimate concern: it buckles and wavers under the strain, and eventually, inevitably, it breaks….
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…The meanings that God calls us to in our lives are never abstract. Though the call may ask us to redefine, or refine, what we know as life, it does not demand a renunciation of life in favor of something beyond it. Moreover, the call itself is always comprised of life. That is, it is not some hitherto unknown voice to which we respond; it is life calling to life. People think that diagnosing the apostle Paul with epilepsy or some related disorder nullifies any notion that God might truly have revealed something of himself on that road to Damascus. But God speaks to us by speaking through us, and any meaning we arrive at in this life is comprised of the irreducible details of the life that is around us at any moment. “I think there is no light in the world / but the world,” writes George Oppen. “And I think there is light.”
There is a distinction to be made between the anxiety of daily existence, which we talk about endlessly, and the anxiety of existence, which we rarely mention at all. The former fritters us into dithering, distracted creatures. The latter attests to—and, if attended to, discloses—our souls. And yet it is a distinction without a difference, perhaps, and as crucial to eventually overcome as it is to initially understand, for to be truly alive means to feel one’s ultimate existence within one’s daily existence, to feel one’s trivial, frittering anxieties acquiring a lightness, a rightness, a meaning. So long as anxiety is merely something to be alleviated, it is not life, or we are not alive enough to experience it as such.
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Read the whole essay here.
I like the expression: “a God-shaped hole in my heart”.
Thanks for taking this opportunity to discuss this, I feel fervently about this and I like learning about this subject. Thanks for sharing this valuable post.
Laws of attractions
How can you say you are a Christian and be for homosexuality? The bible CLEARLY speaks against it. I do not hate the person, only the sin. Grace accepts the person, not the act. But you don’t have to answer to me; you will have to answer to God someday so please read you bible and find the numerous scriptures against this perversion. I’m not a hate monger! My sister lived this life style for 20 years and God healed and delivered her. My nephew is still in it. So you can’t label me as not understanding. BOTH of them were molested when they were very young. Most homosexuals I have spoken with were similarly abused so there IS a connection between being molested and that lifestyle – people were NOT born that way. If they were, God would not be against this abnormal choice. And if “moderation” means screening out people who do not agree with you, then you are guilty of being as closed minded as the hatemongers you protest!
Am I intolerant? Damn straight.
I don’t tolerate people presuming to judge my relationship with Jesus Christ because we disagree on a topic that our Lord never said a word about.
I don’t tolerate people pretending they rely on Scripture alone, while citing discredited and slanderous psychological theories to make their case.
I don’t tolerate people hijacking the tragic stories of men and women whose sexual autonomy was stolen from them in childhood, and compounding that injury to impose more sexual shame and inauthenticity on them as adults.
If you truly had faith in the Bible, you would not need to lie about the lives of gays and lesbians. The command of God would be sufficient. We could civilly disagree on what Scripture commands same-sex-attracted people to do.
There are many good books and websites that explain why a gay-affirming interpretation is consistent with Scripture. Since you seem to be coming at this from a conservative/evangelical perspective, I recommend that you start with evangelical pastor R.D. Weekly’s site, http://www.affirmingtheology.com/ .
That is, if you aren’t closed-minded.
1, What is altitude sickness? What are the symptoms of altitude sickness?
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2, how to avoid or reduce altitude sickness?
most people first arrived in the plateau, there is heavy or light, or altitude sickness, what kind of person generally will not follow the law of altitude sickness, altitude sickness to avoid or mitigate the most good way to keep a good attitude to face it, many of the symptoms are psychological reactions or psychological effects caused by, for example: on the plateau of fear, lack of mental preparation and determination to overcome the plateau people the opportunity to signs of altitude sickness the more.
may take some drugs to ease altitude sickness: altitude Rhodiola (taking at least 10 days in advance), the plateau on (to Tibet after the taking), American ginseng tablet, Nuodikang capsule (extreme fatigue is to alleviate useful), 100 Ning (control headaches caused by altitude sickness), American ginseng (useful to alleviate extreme fatigue), Suxiaojiuxin Pill (not much clothing), Salvia pill (cardiovascular), glucose (kind of a box of five , the symptoms of altitude sickness occur when taking a certain effect), etc., for the plateau adaptable people, the general symptoms of altitude sickness can be eliminated in 1-2 days, 3-7 days to adapt to the needs of the weak.
if You can adapt the taste of butter tea, you can also drink some buttered tea to alleviate altitude sickness also have a role.
3, after reaching the Tibetan plateau response how do I do?
Tibet general hotel or a certain scale towns have hospitals or clinics, minor altitude sickness proposed by self-regulation to adapt to it, can seriously see a doctor. signs of altitude sickness, should be more rest, less activities, and continue eating, altitude sickness can take some relief drugs.
severe altitude sickness, such as occur: edema, pulmonary edema, cold symptoms, proposals must go to the hospital transfusion, oxygen and other treatment, and as soon as possible to leave the plateau, in Lhasa more convenient, daily flights out of Lhasa can take the flight to leave, the general entered the aircraft altitude sickness or a plain disappeared without a trace to, and without any sequelae.
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show off – no practical use of decorative props , the majority of casual games.
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Module 5: If winter comes
wonderful winter activities in the target
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1 To understand the characteristics of winter formed to explore interests.
two.amongst observation, records, drawings, experiments and other activities apt explore the issue, a scientific attitude. activities apt prepare〗 〖
(a) study the situation analysis
class students study amongst the front, has quickly adapted apt the primary school life, willing to participate in team activities,happy apt go with teachers, classmates, and obtain to seek,gather process information, the primary ability apt carry out exploration activities. The school’s surrounding environment has a good teaching resources and advantages; inhabited urban and rustic residents around the educate apt cater students with a extra broader resources.
characteristics of age to face the cool there are approximately 90% of the class students have the psychological bell merely in winter many of the wonderful phenomenon of letting them beaming, so lack apt this topic activities, students study self-care knowledge,breakthrough and explore the wonderful natural phenomena,apt help them in the chance the bravery to face the challenges of the chilly and improve viability.
(b) of material preparation
an reflects the winter landscape, introduced animals and animal winter hibernation multimedia courseware.
2 do experiments in glass, glass and hot water.
three where students observe the changes in winter people clothe aboard the equipment aboard the peel and the changes in flora and fauna.
〗 〖Activity
2 hours.
〗 〖active process
(a) pre-class preparation
an in the access parents purchase edible attach apt see what are the vegetables.
2.apt audit the way in educate you have pedestal
three the morning back the glass windows to audit carefully what happens.
4 listen apt parents distinguish stories almost animal hibernation.
(b) the reading of poetry, into modish courses
1.recount poetry.
Teacher: Students, you know what season? Winter has noiselessly come apt our side, let us go splice apt narrate a poem,to encounter the arrival of winter and grandfather. (Courseware apt generate poems,
you are invisible in the white snow,
or conceal the sparkling ice?
fast out of it,
winter Grandpa!
you movement with us,
to share health and happiness
two into modish courses
divisions: Winter grandfather where? Some duration antecedent the students fired a seek for grandfather’s winter activities. Now, we see as the winter come with Grandpa,want you?
(c) winter grandfather came – briefing
Teacher: You discern the winter grandfather it? It has come apt our side.
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