Monday 2 September 2013

A feather on the breath of God


My reality ‘rests like a feather on the breath of God‘.  It is because God speaks, because God loves and for no other reason.  And if we want to know what it is to say that I am, the only answer is that ‘I am because of the love of God’. And when I seek to justify, defend or systematize what I am, I become ‘serious’.  I cease to be a feather on the breath of God and gravity draws me down into darkness.   

Rowan Williams, 2008, Not being serious

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