“The Sherpas start down immediately; they, too, seem oppressed by so much emptiness. Left alone, I am overtaken by that northern void - no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and snow, thrust an implacable being into the blue. In the early light, the rock shadows on the snow are sharp; in the tension between between light and dark is the power of the universe. This stillness to which all returns, this is reality, and soul and sanity have no more meaning here than a gust of snow; such transience and insignificance are exalting, terrifying, all at once, like the sudden discovery in meditation, of one’s own transparence. Snow mountains, more than sea or sky, serve as a mirror to one’s own true being, utterly still, utterly clear, a void, an Emptiness without life or sound that carries in Itself all life, all sound. Yet as long as I remain an “I” who is conscious of the void and stands apart from it, there will remain a snow mist on the mirror.” - The Snow Leopard, by Tim Matthiessen, Penguin Books, copyright 1978, p. 169.
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Jesus stories, those told by him and those about him, are typically interpreted two-dimensionally. However, Jesus was a Rabbi, teacher, and as a teacher, he would have valued a multi-layered approach to interpreting parables he told and the stories told about him. What if we treated these stories and parables creatively - three-dimensionally? That is the lens Rob uses to view the Jesus stories selected for this new and timely book. Ultimately, this book is less about the stories themselves and more about faith and grace, about God’s amazing and complete love for all people.
Imponderable ...
with Rob Gieselmann
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