Another contexted thought: After doing a bit more reflecting on Chuck's comment on Beatitudes V, one of the things that comes to mind is taking our example from God first, and then moving to human examples. What Chuck's comment made me think of is that we need to look at how God displays mercy first, and then we can learn to imitate that, rather than looking at human examples of mercy, and then try to extrapolate or elevate that to the level of God...
I don't know about all this "using God as our example" business, seems a little risky to me.
Posted by: Chuck | May 25, 2005 at 10:04 PM
Yeah, I know it's way out there! - just figured I would clarify that little piece of the puzzle in case it was fuzzy in my post, particularly since there is an all too human urge to do the opposite.
Posted by: Joe | May 25, 2005 at 11:04 PM