CD with Sara: God's Perspective of an Event

How are we to think about God's perspective of an earthly event?  This question was essentially posed in Sara's recent meditation (at Grace Episcopal Church, Wash. DC).  Remember the Biblical statement that God's thoughts are not our thoughts neither are His ways our ways?

Then too, the Jews in the Old Testament expressed the thought that God's nature is Justice and Truth: He is a JUST GOD.

Put together what we may draw from these utterances is that HIS PERSPECTIVE is truly universal--looking at an event from any perspective of it, i.e., in which it can be described.  I submit that this is the meaning of "a third party" opinion--the point of view that is interest-neutral to sides that could possibly benefit by a judge's ruling that favors one argument in contradistinction to its opposite.

Now in jurisprudence, the only way to achieve that level of what we adjudge is true objectivity is to remove any legitimate claim to bias for any one's claimant position.  Justice must be totally impartial, having nothing to gain monetarily or otherwise by a judge's adjudication.

Parenthetically, that's why I have favored in my political career taking no money over and against the accusation of favoring one viewpoint or political philosophy over its counterpart for the sake of personal gain.           

CD with Sara: Jesus' Understanding of the Concept: LOVE

I've been introduced to Sara, who has become our leader of Saturday meditations at Grace Church, Washington, DC.  I have found her understanding of the Christian message refreshing and useful as a vehicle for greater depth in what we believe.

So, I'm including discussions at the luncheon she has originated and carried forth, when the points she makes are of value in my spiritual journey.

I start off with the comment she made recently that Jesus' emphasis on the power of love has universal application to our relationships with others and with God Himself--what He referred to a His list of 2 religious commandments.  I raised my hand to make the comment that Jesus' understanding as to the universality of love in structuring our daily relationships with one another may indeed signify the Greek philosophical idea of love as an ultimate universal principle of the cosmos.  In that vein, what binds physical elements is love as the force of attraction, or as we might infer, as the power of gravity.  In this way, truly, LOVE is the bind that unites all peoples and other animate creatures and all inanimate objects throughout the universe.