Todays Meditation from All Souls sums up the discussion our Building Your Own Theology class had last night about ethics and our own ten commandments: Two kinds of ideals are always at work in our lives. There are those ideals that are ultimate and in a very real sense always far out beyond anything that can be achieved. Or as one person puts it, they are like far-off lighthouses whose glow is far away in the distance... There are also those ideals that seem to be created out of the stubborn realities, in the midst of which we work and live. They belong essentially to the stuff of life, the very raw materials of experience. They are never separate from what we know to be the character of our daily living. Always they are close at hand, a part of the immediate possibility, always being achieved but never quite fully achieved. (Howard Thurman, 1899 – 1981)
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 12:58:08 +0000
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