cuckoo’s nest

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For anyone with an interest in dance, drama, sanity, insanity, visualizing crucifixion and ascension, or the redemptive nature of love:  there are two more performances of Insane in the Brain at the macrobert theatre in Stirling.

I’ve never left a dance performance thinking ‘that was better than the novel’ before.

There’s more information here, though to my eyes, it gives you no sense of the mad beauty you’ll find.
Then again, there were times when the more the audience was laughing, the closer I was to tears, so it may depend on your point of view.

cultural difference?

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In our discussion on Language for God last night, the starter of Jim Cotter’s prayer wasn’t nearly as productive as I hoped.   We all liked ‘who is making the heavens and the earth’, and ‘My Unicorn’ did get some reaction, but when I asked that we play devil’s advocate and name the potential negatives and positives of the image, it was fairly dry.

I didn’t expect that.  Not even the prompt: “imagine that you are praying with a 6 year old girl — how might she experience the phrase?” got us anywhere.

Eventually, I had to face the possibility that much of what I assume of unicorns is American.

So, in the spirit of educational research, I need your help.

Free association word game, please, for Unicorn.

gold stars for originality and good use of evocative language.

old prayers

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See, I can be a nostalgic traditionalist too.

Remember this?

Our help is in the name of the Lord
who is making the heavens and the earth.

Dear God, we thank you for all that is good,
for our creation and our humanity,
for the stewardship you have given us of the planet earth,
for the gifts of life and one another,
for your Love which is unbounded and eternal.

O Thou, most holy and beloved,
my Companion, my Unicorn, my Guide upon the Way.

Jim Cotter, Prayers at Night

It seemed as good a way as any to start a discussion on the language we use for God in tonight’s Deepening session.