tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post7059379059601741789..comments2023-10-08T07:07:36.538-04:00Comments on Search the Sea: Present or Absent?Gannet Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374279595560691174noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-91236391284784387452008-05-06T08:13:00.000-04:002008-05-06T08:13:00.000-04:00I need to mull this around. It's difficult to stay...I need to mull this around. It's difficult to stay connected and difficult to disconnect at the same time. Maybe we're saying the same thing but I'm substituting connected for present - I don't know. <BR/><BR/>Presence and absence seems more like God's doing where as connected seems to put more of the responsibility on me. Perhaps my version of faith is the assumption that God is always there but sometimes I am not paying attention or being open to connecting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-55374591609210665192008-05-06T01:13:00.000-04:002008-05-06T01:13:00.000-04:00you are a great pastor, already. you know?you are a great pastor, already. you know?Diane M. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07749136181846671327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-59328157294127820112008-05-05T09:03:00.000-04:002008-05-05T09:03:00.000-04:00This is a beautiful post, thank you, and articulat...This is a beautiful post, thank you, and articulates how I feel, as well. I couldn't see God for a very long time--now I can. That doesn't mean I understand, but this sense of presence, even when barely visible, is so wonderful and comforting.<BR/><BR/>--aa.alto artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07101176587462737940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-39124251046658743522008-05-04T22:55:00.000-04:002008-05-04T22:55:00.000-04:00well, GG...you know my experience of the silent Go...well, GG...you know my experience of the silent God since I posted about it for most of last year....so. Yes. You say it well...I can now also speak of the very vocal God who, after a LONG silence says: GO!<BR/><BR/>Well. S*&T...if I didn't jump and GO and then wonder "What the heck" (Or maybe I'd use a stronger word than that)...Terrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667178624061122421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-36862908568362148832008-05-04T22:21:00.000-04:002008-05-04T22:21:00.000-04:00Thanks for this. Yes, it is a paradox isn't it. ...Thanks for this. Yes, it is a paradox isn't it. I love you you articulate that, especially that last part about the one inside the other. That's the part that it took me longest to get...the, oh here we go again, the both/and!RevDrKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06043193615563649333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-45765954367779486262008-05-04T06:51:00.000-04:002008-05-04T06:51:00.000-04:00Ahhh, you are wise, GG.Ahhh, you are wise, GG.Katherine E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06322364633534297714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-14853788902335672802008-05-03T22:53:00.000-04:002008-05-03T22:53:00.000-04:00You are very wise. Thank you for expressing how Go...You are very wise. Thank you for expressing how God is both present and absent, sometimes at the same time.<BR/><BR/>I was helped so much by a professor/priest who told me how Karl Rahner talked about the absence and/or yearning of God as the actual Presence. I've been helped so much by this thought.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08061517211101084120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-31981028918434076942008-05-03T18:26:00.000-04:002008-05-03T18:26:00.000-04:00I think your attempt to explain is well-done. Dee...I think your attempt to explain is well-done. Deep down in my soul, I know that God is alway present. Yet I also know that for whatever reason, God's presence becomes buried, sometimes under a very heavy layer of absence of attentionon my part. Sometimes that layer is intentionally deepened by me. Other times, no matter how hard I think I'm trying, I can't unbury it. Right now, I'm experiencing absence, but I know that right now (for reasons I'm trying to understand) I've added more to the layer. I've turned my cell phone off as it were, and I'm not checking my voice mail very often. From past experience, I know that the time is coming when I when I will open the channel . . . . The question for me is why I do this!Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06420035725875000489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-48805283011459806322008-05-03T07:26:00.000-04:002008-05-03T07:26:00.000-04:00You did a beautiful job explaining this very, very...You did a beautiful job explaining this very, very complicated concept.Cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11641264346663533706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080538.post-19843762259946754262008-05-03T06:28:00.000-04:002008-05-03T06:28:00.000-04:00As with a long lost friend, saying hello is a way ...As with a long lost friend, saying hello is a way to reconnect. For me the moments of intense connection are far fewer that the moments when I stop and say "Hey God, I am here."Stratozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148600260976577216noreply@blogger.com