Welcome to Litsy!

I‘ve gotten so much out of every book I‘ve read by Lauren Winner. And this was no exception. She explores several metaphors for God, from clothing to laughter to bread and wine—some more surprising than others, but all offering an invitation to look at God and BE with God in new and unexpected ways. I especially appreciated her examination of the image of God as a laboring woman. Deeply thoughtful and spiritually powerful throughout—recommended!

Yesterday was hectic & I didn‘t manage to get my #WeeklyForecast posted. Here‘s my plan for the week:
✅Finish Thirst & Wearing God
⚓️ 2/3 through Ship of Destiny
❓Maybe start Scarlet Pimpernel or I‘ll Be Your Blue Sky, depending on my mood
📚I‘ll be keeping up my daily reading of Word by Word & need to figure out whether to bail on View from the Cheap Seats 😱 or renew it one last time. I didn‘t finish my planned 100 pages last week, so...🤷🏻‍♀️

In pursuing the Bible‘s images of God, I have discovered a lot about my own biases. When the scriptures depict God doing something people do...I automatically go to an image
of a middle-class white person‘s doing that same thing & reason backward from
that picture to God. But I believe that God identifies foremost with the marginalized... Jesus could have told his friends...that they would find him whenever they patronized the craft cocktail bar⤵️

“There are plenty of psychological and even medical reason why our images of God matter. Scholars have found correlations between the ways a person imagines God, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, eating disorders, shame, and alcoholism. People who primarily imagine God to be distant and judging, as opposed to intimate and loving, tend more toward psychopathology and have a higher rate of gun ownership.”

Totally makes sense, but also—😂