Sharon,
Thanks for sharing.  I love seeing God through your eyes.
Vicki

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From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: Who is God


>I am learning that God is a real person, not a philosophy that we do 
> rituals in church about and sing for.  If it weren't for Him, you and I 
> could not reach out and physically touch.  The Lord put Moses into a 
> cleft of a rock and showed him his backside since no one can see His 
> face and live because Eve ate the forbidden fruit.  Then, between The 
> Holy Spirit and Mary, He took on physical flesh and was given the name 
> Jesus.  There was a real town called Bethlehem in Israel, just like 
> there is Denver Colorado in the USA.   There was a real stable with 
> it's animals, hay and manure, and real baby that, if I had been there, 
> I could have held in my arms, just like I've held some of my nieces and 
> nephews soon after they came home from the hospital where they had come 
> out of the mother's womb.  I'm curious as to what His voice sounded 
> like when He was a grown man, the feel of his hands as He ministered to 
> the people.  And when He died on a man-made cross, He shed real, 
> physical blood.  So when I proclaim that His blood covers me, that's 
> not a philosophy either.
> 
> Since we had been made in God's image, He does have emotions, just as I 
> do.  I can read about His Compassion, patience and Anger in the old 
> Testament, and the same compassion, joy and sorrow  Jesus felt during 
> his ministry, and the agony as He approached the day when He would be 
> sacrificed through brutal torture and Crucifixion.
> 
> Now we wait for a physical risen Lord to come and the creation of a 
> real, new Earth.  That helps me to more readily accept why I should go 
> to church, read the Bible and pray.  It is also helping me to come out 
> of my morbid feelings that I had associated with God.
>