In my mind, God is created by God to explain things that exceed their understanding. But why they make a God invisible in our life and so many people will lose their faith in him? P10 #VUTHL1000@somethingwithin@oholyshift
Dr. Weems explains the concepts relating to her own experience and ideas. It makes the stories not that boring and helps me, a person that never get in touch with God before, to have a clearer sense of God. P9 #VUTHL1000@somethingwithin@oholyshift
Dr. Weems, when you were chosen in the church as a girl, did you feel the presence and the voice of God? And why don’t you think that others would not understand your tears and love? P8 #VUTHL1000@somethingwithin@oholyshift
Dr. Weems, you state on page 88 that “Great books need great readers”. Do you think your own experience of life makes you to become a reader, or just provide you more common language with the books? P7 #VUTHL1000@somethingwithin@oholyshift
@GrenotJessica @somethingwithin@oholyshift I agree with the second theory. I think God should be an invisible role in our life. Keeping silence does not mean God is not here. I believe following the nature is God wants. R 10 #VUTHL1000@somethingwithin@oholyshift
Dr. Weems, I don’t know if you know Buddhism a lot, but I still wonder if God exists in eastern world, how does he work and help people in another totally different religion. P6 #VUTHL1000@somethingwithin@oholyshift
@sophiapedro_@somethingwithin@oholyshift I agree with you. When I was studying Bible here last semester, I was always confused about the texts. But in Dr. Weems’ book, she shows the concepts with her daily life. It makes the whole ideas clearer. R3
p5: Dr. Weems, On page 79, you mentioned that you stopped “believing in things being holy”. Do you think that it is the representation that you lost your belief, or it is a step everyone will face at some time in their journey finding God. @somethingwithin@oholyshift#VUTHL1000
P4: The time that I felt the closest to God is when I experienced a really terrible car crash. My car was totally destroyed but my mom and me were fine without any hurt. At that moment I felt like we were given struggles while protection.#VUTHL1000@somethingwithin@oholyshift
@BrianLanga13@oholyshift@somethingwithin R2: I have the same kind of feeling. Plants are lives and they were given by God to the world must for some reasons. Gardening or simply taking care of a plant might be a way to connect God and to our deeper minds.
#VUTHL1000 One thing that makes me hard to join this community in the first several weeks is that I did not have common language with God, even I tried to read the prayers in the mass and sing the songs in Christmas Concert. @somethingwithin@oholyshift
#VUTHL1000 R4: On page 67, Dr. Weems mentions that God is “waiting for human beings...back into the give-and-take of intimacy with God.” It is really similar to the Book of Job. God stands behind the story and you cannot feel his exist sometime. @somethingwithin@oholyshift
#VUTHL1000 I am really curious about how simplicity works in religions. Prayers and simplicity seems to be a pair of paradox. In my home, there are many dates that we have to prepare foods and incenses to celebrate or memorize something.
#VUTHL1000 Dr. Weems you mentioned that praying is time and energy consuming. Does that against to the simplicity that you state? Or putting praying as a daily relaxing, and you are enjoying it, therefore it becomes simpler? @somethingwithin .@oholyshift