Comments on: Conversations With My Friends http://therequiest.com/index.php/2010/01/12/conversations-with-my-friends/ Standing on my Soapbox Ranting at the World Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:19:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rong http://therequiest.com/index.php/2010/01/12/conversations-with-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-665 Rong Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:19:28 +0000 http://therequiest.com/index.php/2010/01/12/conversations-with-my-friends/#comment-665 And this of course dovetails back to our analogy of the ship. Are you sure you and I aren't already on the ship? I keep thinking that I'm traipsing along lost in the bowels of the ship with barely enough light for me to see and comprehend what my surroundings are, let alone the fact that I'm in a ship. Every once in a while I bump into another wandering soul who'll whisper something like, "We need to look for the stairs.", or "Maybe if we cry out someone will hear us?" I've been pretty lucky lately. I found a whole group that's decided to get together periodically in a larger cargo hold. Of course we all wander off in our different ways looking for the "stairs" or some other means by which we might get to the light, but we still get back together for comfort. Sometimes we'll even appoint someone to go out as far as they can and try to find others who might be stumbling around lost. I think my ship analogy just failed at that last point, but hey it was fun while it lasted. Almost as good as the Server/Client relationship analogy. Still waiting to see you fully flesh out that one. And this of course dovetails back to our analogy of the ship.

Are you sure you and I aren’t already on the ship?

I keep thinking that I’m traipsing along lost in the bowels of the ship with barely enough light for me to see and comprehend what my surroundings are, let alone the fact that I’m in a ship. Every once in a while I bump into another wandering soul who’ll whisper something like, “We need to look for the stairs.”, or “Maybe if we cry out someone will hear us?”

I’ve been pretty lucky lately. I found a whole group that’s decided to get together periodically in a larger cargo hold. Of course we all wander off in our different ways looking for the “stairs” or some other means by which we might get to the light, but we still get back together for comfort. Sometimes we’ll even appoint someone to go out as far as they can and try to find others who might be stumbling around lost.

I think my ship analogy just failed at that last point, but hey it was fun while it lasted. Almost as good as the Server/Client relationship analogy. Still waiting to see you fully flesh out that one.

]]> By: the friend http://therequiest.com/index.php/2010/01/12/conversations-with-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-664 the friend Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:37:12 +0000 http://therequiest.com/index.php/2010/01/12/conversations-with-my-friends/#comment-664 I've been thinking about that conversation. I wonder how significant it is to realize that our bride (or groom as it were) has by His own blood initiated the act of union with us in which He can kiss us freely without reserve. In other words we believe that somehow because of our sin that a veil still remains or worse that our lips are actually cankerous blistered gangrenous flthy putrid rotting olfactorily and tactially offensive in every way to our Bride (sorry for the mixed analogies)and yet He with the burning searing purifying coal of His own righteousness has cleaned and healed us completely. All that awaits is the sweet embrace which comes without hesitation and with full arousal. Oh if we only knew the Saviors love and affection for us. I’ve been thinking about that conversation. I wonder how significant it is to realize that our bride (or groom as it were) has by His own blood initiated the act of union with us in which He can kiss us freely without reserve. In other words we believe that somehow because of our sin that a veil still remains or worse that our lips are actually cankerous blistered gangrenous flthy putrid rotting olfactorily and tactially offensive in every way to our Bride (sorry for the mixed analogies)and yet He with the burning searing purifying coal of His own righteousness has cleaned and healed us completely. All that awaits is the sweet embrace which comes without hesitation and with full arousal. Oh if we only knew the Saviors love and affection for us.

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