Musings from the Plane - 07/20/2018

Sitting on a plane for 23 hours get one to thinking.  A scholar of early CHRISTIAN writers reminded me of my favorite one: 
“The mystical works of Gregory of Nyssa (3rd C) are all built on the idea of a perpetual surpassing of self ‘Always higher, always greater than oneself.’ Gregory’s books on The Life of Moses, the commentary on the Song of Songs, and the sermons on the beatitudes are mystical ascents without any possible end. Since the object is infinite, the journey toward it is also infinite. All limited computations henceforth disappear. Once the soul has arrived at a new summit, it is as if she had not yet taken her first step.”

Hans Urs von Balthasar  in "Becoming and the Immanent Infinite in Gregory of Nyssa"

We all have various paths and summits before us.  Most less voluntary than the one immediately before me. And many whose outcome are hardly certain. It is by faith we walk always.  ​