Friday, December 31, 2010

An Introduction to this Blog

In a 'Circular Letter' of Christmas 1939 to the brethren of the Finkenwalde seminary and the pastors of the Confessing Church theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote:
'God revealed in the flesh', the God-man Jesus Christ, is the holy mystery which theology is appointed to guard. What a mistake to think that it is the task of theology to unravel God's mystery, to bring it down to the flat, ordinary human wisdom of experience and reason! It is the task of theology solely to preserve God's wonder as wonder, to understand, to defend, to glorify God's mystery as mystery.
As I share with the readers of this blog my various writings it is my hope that I will be able to preserve God's wonder as wonder, and glorify God's mystery as mystery. Here you will find my various ponderings, prayers, poems, sermons and blessings - all intended to be part of the conversation with fellow sojourners on this spiritual pilgrimage. I hope this blog will help the readers to embrace more fully the mystery of God, to delight in the wonder, to sense the numinous.

I post this on the eve of a New Year. As a new year is often a time for new beginnings it seemed an appropriate time to start this new venture. Thank you for joining me in this journey.

Peace & Joy!
Dennis