I want to think more about the theology of the quotation below.
"We are not self made selves:
our identity is not determined solely by others.
Human life is Theonomous -
we are from God, toward God, for God.
Each human person is destined for transformation by the glory of God,
as seen in the Transfiguration of Christ,
the foreshadowing of Love given on the Cross
and Love bonding with its Source in the Resurrection."
Michael Downey, Altogether Gift. A Trinitarian Spirituality, page 136
On first reading it seemed to me to be an important corrective to the creeping devaluation of our human ordinariness, the inner blame we sometimes feel for our felt mediocrity, and the shoulder shrugging dismissiveness we can practice towards ourselves and our potential to be what God calls us to be as children made in the image of God.
In the meantime, the words point us away from self-critique towards the One whose judgments have more mercy and grace than our own.
But I want to think about it a bit more.............
The photo is of gorse, on the cliff tops at St Cyrus, taken on Good Friday.
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