Comments on: Gold Can Stay http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/04/gold-can-stay/ Unity in charity, diversity in truth Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:23:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Clara http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/04/gold-can-stay/#comment-14951 Clara Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:32:17 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/04/gold-can-stay/#comment-14951 You're very kind, Jon. Happy Easter! You’re very kind, Jon. Happy Easter!

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]]> By: Jon http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/04/gold-can-stay/#comment-14923 Jon Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:03:02 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/04/gold-can-stay/#comment-14923 Clara, What a beautiful meditation for my Easter Monday morning. Thank you. Clara,

What a beautiful meditation for my Easter Monday morning.

Thank you.

]]> By: Nathan Smith http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/04/gold-can-stay/#comment-14922 Nathan Smith Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:50:17 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/04/gold-can-stay/#comment-14922 re: "We are both unable and unwilling to sit still singing “Holy Holy Holy” as the saints do..." A seemingly stupid and flippant response to this might nonetheless point to some insights. Wouldn't it get boring to sing "Holy holy holy" over and over again? Would we sing it on a single tone or vary it? Would we add polyphony, or instruments? No matter how ingenious the musical arrangement, it would be hard to make an incessant chant of "Holy holy holy" stay interesting for more than a few minutes. I think we've all had the intuition sometimes that the true purpose of man is to glorify God, that all genuine, non-self-destructive pleasures consist in some way of worshipping God (including through loving our neighbor, admiring the beauty of nature, and much of what counts as artistic endeavor) and that the most fulfilling life would be one of pure worship. And yet in practice one could not sing "Holy holy holy" for two minutes without one's thoughts straying into all manner of petty and profane distractions. If the Kingdom of God is within us, so is the rebellion. re: “We are both unable and unwilling to sit still singing “Holy Holy Holy” as the saints do…”

A seemingly stupid and flippant response to this might nonetheless point to some insights. Wouldn’t it get boring to sing “Holy holy holy” over and over again? Would we sing it on a single tone or vary it? Would we add polyphony, or instruments? No matter how ingenious the musical arrangement, it would be hard to make an incessant chant of “Holy holy holy” stay interesting for more than a few minutes.

I think we’ve all had the intuition sometimes that the true purpose of man is to glorify God, that all genuine, non-self-destructive pleasures consist in some way of worshipping God (including through loving our neighbor, admiring the beauty of nature, and much of what counts as artistic endeavor) and that the most fulfilling life would be one of pure worship. And yet in practice one could not sing “Holy holy holy” for two minutes without one’s thoughts straying into all manner of petty and profane distractions.

If the Kingdom of God is within us, so is the rebellion.

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