Where is Truth found?
People talk about the Celts, and celtic Christians in particular finding God in nature. Where else would one find truth?
Perhaps in books, but does that mean that books are unnatural? Perhaps they are treated as such. In our experience we don’t need to think hard to rememberr how some books in particular are treated as supernatural revelations of divine truth. A message from an otherwise absent God, made present.
But is this how our relationship with God is described in the Bible?
In the Gospel of John the Word ,the organising principle, the rational conversation, is always present. In the psalms the creator and wisdom, the architect, are present before the oceans and land are described. In genesis, like a bird, the spirit flies over the waters of chaos bringing peace.
Before there were books, or perhaps even abstract thought, God is creating. We encounter God in the fire in the minds of the meeting of men on the hilltops. In true experiences of smelling green in the air on a warm summers day. In love shared through an embrace and joy at finding a lost treasure.
These gut feelings are tested by experience. Justified through discussion with those who recognise wisdom. They are as easily found in a forest as they are in a city universtity.
They are also frustratingly difficult to define, label, or brand. But as a community we can learn to sense moments, and help each other understand them. A truth which is out there waiting to be discovered, but which lives in the discovery of it. Which finds its form in the making, and sheds its skin to grow.
Curious? Join us on our journey.
