The Heavens Declare the Glory of God

Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
This first video was shot in South Dakota.


The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.
This Video was shot in Spain.


The White Mountain from charles on Vimeo.
And this video was shot in Hawaii.

Incarnation

At the heart of Incarnation theology is the notion that the human body is neither accidental nor unworthy of the habitation of God. The scandal of the Incarnation is the scandal of the human body. To paraphrase Brother (Cornell) West: Jesus was born too close to urine, excrement and sex for the comfort of some theologians.

The Church, philosophers and mere mortals have waxed eloquent and ad nauseum about the possible endurance of the human body after death in the after-life, in one form or a another. I don't claim any new revelation or more clarity on the old ones.

I do wonder if the body endures and all of our senses are heightened, what that means about our sensuality and sexuality. I know that Jesus said that we would be "like angels who neither marry nor are given in marriage." As unlikely as it may be, I wonder if he simply meant the abolition of marriage, possibly even childbirth, but not sexual expression.

Or, if our human flesh truly dies with this life, what does that suggest about how fully we ought to live this life?

Where Is Heaven?

When Will I See You Again?

In the Oral Torah of enslaved Africans in the Americas,
our sages taught:

Soon'a will be dun wit da troubles of da worl'
da troubles of da worl'
da troubles of da worl'
soon'a will be dun wit da troubles of da worl'
I' gwine home to live wit God.
I want to see my mother...

Will we see our loved ones again?
For those who believe in heaven, the answer is yes.
People imagine seeing their loved ones ~
children who have died too soon, perhaps in the womb,
parents, lovers.
How will we know them? What will they look like?

I know a mystic who has seen the other side.
She says, Each soul transforms through each age of their lives,
even the ages they never reached.
Each soul can be seen as they were and as they would have been.
The bereft mother can see the child she lost
and the woman she would have been.
Each soul is in constant flux, musical, lyrical and fluid.

On that day, we shall know and be known.