If we move to the direction of deification, our human nature, progressing towards God, will somehow carry the created material world with it. If, however, we move to the opposite direction, the created world will suffer with us as well.
-Orthodox Perspectives on Creation, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
If we move towards Christlikeness we move towards a loving stewardship and servanthood of the Earth that somehow carries all of us towards deification.
It is good for workers to have an appetite;
an empty stomach drives them on.
-Proverbs 16
hunger is good. It is good for man to remain in the tension of hunger. For us to never starve yet never find complete satisfaction. Hunger is necessary to being human.
To be human is to be hungry. To be hungry is to be humble.
Hunger points us to our mortality.
Mortality keeps us aware of our limitations, our dependence.
Dependence on the earth, the community, most importantly on God.
With out hunger there is no humility without humility there is only Pride
Pride goes before destruction,
and haughtiness before a fall.
-Proverbs 16
Pride comes before the fall. Our hungry is was drives us on. It's what keeps us human. It's what keeps us alive in Christ. Without hunger without dependence we have no appetite for grace.
Without the appetite or the understanding of our need we take the place in our own minds of God.
Once we have become our own god we are delusional and no longer living in reality.
This delusion and detachment from what is real creates our destruction.
We store up food, we store up riches we think we don't need God we think we are above need. We, by our own strength have eliminated the hunger for God and in so doing this we take the bite from the very fruit that created our mortality our hunger for God.
To be human is to desire to be our own god and yet to realize at the same time our need for God.
There isn't a question of what would have happened if we didn't eat from the tree. To be human is to eat from the tree. To be human is to have hunger.
twenty one pilots: Tear In My Heart
-Orthodox Perspectives on Creation, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
If we move towards Christlikeness we move towards a loving stewardship and servanthood of the Earth that somehow carries all of us towards deification.
It is good for workers to have an appetite;
an empty stomach drives them on.
-Proverbs 16
hunger is good. It is good for man to remain in the tension of hunger. For us to never starve yet never find complete satisfaction. Hunger is necessary to being human.
To be human is to be hungry. To be hungry is to be humble.
Hunger points us to our mortality.
Mortality keeps us aware of our limitations, our dependence.
Dependence on the earth, the community, most importantly on God.
With out hunger there is no humility without humility there is only Pride
Pride goes before destruction,
and haughtiness before a fall.
-Proverbs 16
Pride comes before the fall. Our hungry is was drives us on. It's what keeps us human. It's what keeps us alive in Christ. Without hunger without dependence we have no appetite for grace.
Without the appetite or the understanding of our need we take the place in our own minds of God.
Once we have become our own god we are delusional and no longer living in reality.
This delusion and detachment from what is real creates our destruction.
We store up food, we store up riches we think we don't need God we think we are above need. We, by our own strength have eliminated the hunger for God and in so doing this we take the bite from the very fruit that created our mortality our hunger for God.
To be human is to desire to be our own god and yet to realize at the same time our need for God.
There isn't a question of what would have happened if we didn't eat from the tree. To be human is to eat from the tree. To be human is to have hunger.
twenty one pilots: Tear In My Heart