Posted by the biker on February 03, 2003 at 21:37:54:
In Reply to: Re: nomos posted by PS on February 03, 2003 at 11:01:14:
: Thank you for sharing this. I think it is amazing that these chronicles--these sacred monuments so gloriously illogical and anomic in their placement--do in some mysterious way portray the precise coordinates of that divine nomos which orders and defines us in all our existence and yet remains so magisterially transcendent that I cannot find myself on the map. This is such a good thing. Religion's AAA-type "trip-tiks" with the sacred journey marked in red abound. But there is something powerful about being lost in the true wonder of the unfathomable, and yet finding oneself firmly located in the simplicity of whether I loved my friend well today.
yes, tonight on the way home riding my bike, I was struck w this thought that the best kind of mysticism tends toward me asking if i have been a good boy today. or even more than that, not so much, what did i do or not do, but wanting to be disposed to god in a way that is pleasing to him. not works righteousness, but basically openness to God. without this openness to grace and love, my good works are monuments of self and therefore hollow. o.k. i'm gone.
the biker