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.
>
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