Independent Blog:
I
thought a very beautiful quote from Otto (on pg. 220) was,
“In
sorrow, haunted by uncertain presentiments, we feel the infinite
around us. The gloom disperses, the world's joy comes again, and it
seems as if God were gone – the Being who had touched us with a
withering hand and wrestled with us, yet whose presence, even when
most terrible, was more blessed than his absence.”
This
speaks of our very normal human conditions, and our need for God in
all of them. I like how in that chapter it explains how God is many
times even more present in our times of darkness than in the light.
In the darkness, how much more will we be prone to acknowledge a
sudden bright light. This knowledge that not only would be terrible
in “his absence” and we are dependent on him, but also that he's
always with us, even in the dark times, is a beautiful thing and
encouraging thought.
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