Parable of the Sower

Some upper class men prove they’re men by having one wife and a lot of beautiful, disposable young servant girls.

Some middle class men prove they’re men by having a lot of wives in temporary or permanent relationships.

God exists to be shaped.

God exists to be shaped.

A gift of God

May sear unready fingers.

A gift of God

May sear unready fingers.

maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her.

maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her. She was no Job.

We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. Then we go on to create super-people—super-parents, super-kings and queens, super-cops—to be our gods and to look after us—to stand between us and God. Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba—or like a cancer. Chaos.

God can’t be resisted or stopped, but can be shaped and focused. This means God is not to be prayed to.