{"id":22119,"date":"2023-02-14T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22119"},"modified":"2023-02-14T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:39:04","slug":"22119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22119","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CAIN - Yes He Can (Lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IiSgxlD4kqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Feelings of God<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In his 1980 talks on the Hebrew prophets, Father Richard identified the passion of the prophets, which is also the passion of God:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>prophets provide a journey into the heart of God.<\/strong> Their images and words and dramas oftentimes seem exaggerated and absolutist. These are somehow an attempt to draw humankind into the pathos, the feeling, the intensity, the pain, even, that characterize the heart of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we look at it too logically, we may say, \u201cWell, that\u2019s a misuse of words.\u201d We might say that God doesn\u2019t have pain, feeling, desire, or anger. Yet <strong>prophets dare to use those words and images because the prophets are speaking to us.<\/strong> The prophet knows that these are words we can understand, that we can enter into, and that will somehow assimilate us into the heart of God\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s come at it the other way around. We know and we feel; if we are children of God, then somehow what characterizes our heart and humanity must be reflected in who God is. Maybe the only way to get a handle on who God is, is to speak of desire, to speak of anger, to speak of longing, to speak of love. And so we dare to do it, and the prophet dares to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Scholar and activist Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907\u20131972) describes the shared experience of feeling between God and a prophet:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fundamental experience of the prophet is<strong> a fellowship with the feelings of God, a\u00a0<em>sympathy with the divine pathos<\/em>, a communion with the divine consciousness<\/strong>\u2026. The typical prophetic state of mind is one of being taken up into the heart of the divine pathos. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Richard continues:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prophets don\u2019t try to be logical. Perhaps this is why prophets get closer to the Divine Reality than many of the more rational and prudent, logical and theological approaches to God. <strong>If we\u2019re looking for prudence and balance, we don\u2019t read the prophets. That\u2019s not their vocation.<\/strong> They\u2019re not called to be that. In a world that is so one-sided, always looking for the self-preserving, careful, cautious, and protective way, the prophet feels they must stand way over at a distance and pull humanity to the other side. They must help humanity experience the pathos of God, the pain, the feeling, the longing, the desire of God\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If teachers give us the ideas of God, then prophets give us the feelings of God.<\/strong> This helps us see Jesus as both prophet and teacher. Jesus speaks the word of God, the ideas of God, but combines with them the feelings of God. That\u2019s what it means to have a whole understanding of reality. We know so much more than we understand, at least if we\u2019re listening. <strong>If we\u2019re learning how to listen, we know so much more than we understand. What the prophets do is help us to know what we know.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-2-500x306.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22121\" width=\"797\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-2-500x306.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-2-300x184.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-2-768x470.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-2-1536x940.png 1536w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-2.png 1876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Feelings of God In his 1980 talks on the Hebrew prophets, Father Richard identified the passion of the prophets, which is also the passion of God:&nbsp; The prophets provide a journey into the heart of God. 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