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Fri, 24 Dec 1999 15:20:58 -0600

"Deborah Mattingly Conner" <******

Xmas Greeting from Alice O Howell / IonaDove

>From ABRAHAM'S BOSOM by Basil King

 

Go back to what we said as to sight being not the action of a temporary

optic nerve. We see God by what we understand of him; we understand him by

his attributes; and we measure his attributes by their beauty and goodness

and practicality. Wherever there has been a blessing to enjoy, you've seen

God. Wherever love has cheered you or kindness helped you, you've seen God.

In sunrise and sunset and moonlight and starlight, and trees and fields and

harvest and flowers and ice and snow and air, and health and beauty and

generousity and friendship, and all that gives to existence, you've seen

God. He hasn't been invisible. There is not one world in which God is seen

and another world in which he is not. There is not a life with God and

another life away from him. There is only one world and God fills it; there

is only one life, to which God is All-in-All.

 

More blessed are they who learn to live in God as in One Vast Certainty --

which created everyone, and supplies everyone and upholds everyone and

defends everyone and loves everyone; and does it all with unlimited

intelligence and might.

 

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"The soul cannot move, awake or open the eyes without perceiving God. We

peceive God by the soul as we feel air on the body.

 

Shall I dare say it? We know God easily so long as we do not force

ourselves to define him."

~Joseph Joubert

 

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This is an excerpt from a small book written by my grandfather Basil King.

The words are spoken from "the other side" to the main character, a crusty

agnostic, as he lies unconscious. I found the book by chance and opened it

to this!

With love from Alice Xmas 1999