tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865004314650777465.post2624082892911745931..comments2023-10-28T11:12:02.164-04:00Comments on The Philosopher Mom: Miriam the Philosopher.Erika Ahernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11477804033751036631noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865004314650777465.post-49309198710044039702011-05-25T22:26:20.189-04:002011-05-25T22:26:20.189-04:00I love it, and I love your take on it, likening he...I love it, and I love your take on it, likening her to the Greats. Thanks for the smile. And thanks to Clare, too. That's about the most awesome comment you could have hoped for. :)Claire (Nayhee)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865004314650777465.post-28147490178108053672011-05-24T11:02:07.262-04:002011-05-24T11:02:07.262-04:00So astute - how does a little girl share her pers...So astute - how does a little girl share her perspective on such existential certainties as "I know I am"?<br /><br />From a child's vantage point, the family is the reference point surely, as Miriam herself formulates queries about time and place? Why not try this mundane tabloid journalism article <br /><br />http://www.metro.co.uk/news/864155-identical-sisters-have-matching-careers-cars-homes-and-baby-bumps<br /><br />to help her grasp personalism - we are persons, we are gifted with the capacity (receptivity) for relationship with others who share place and time with us, as our Heavenly Father does with his Son in the Holy Spirit? <br /><br />SO...if mummy had a twin sister, and daddy had married her instead, she'd be a cousin to the family you (and not her father rather her uncle) were gifted with from God! God gifts life in this dynamic way, not reducible to a singular idea of our own chosing "I know I am (cogito ergo sum)" but expansive imaginings of creative "I love" (I serve). God sustains the life of the trees, and when they reach the limit God gave them in his wonderful design "when they aren't there anymore (ie are harvested, fall over in a storm, or simply rot away) their material mass can "serve" as wood for structures to protect other life forms or as detritus to compost and provide food for other life forms!<br /><br />We are made incarnate however in <b>God</b>'s image <i>"whose property is always to have mercy"</i> <br /><br />(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Humble_Access<br /><br />in our own personal existence here and now in His good time, and in His providential place<br /> ... in this world AND in the here-after... presently AND ever more... <br /><br />"Yesterday is History, <br />Tomorrow a Mystery, <br />Today is a <b>Gift</b> <br />That's why it's called the Present"<br /><br />God's 'present presence' is an everlasting gift inside the hearts of those who love him, a communio of relationship, rooted in the mystery of undeserved grace, reciprocated by way of same!<br /><br />(for more a weighty reflection on orienting our existential certainty for grown-ups - experience time and place <i>inside</i> Sunday evening's tornado:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds&feature=player_embedded<br /><br />.. then extend it into eternity, and you have Dante's vision of the deepest pits of hell - frozen in a walk-in refrigerator of "non serviam")Clare Krishannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865004314650777465.post-17721250694848949212011-05-23T21:43:28.961-04:002011-05-23T21:43:28.961-04:00She's a deep thinker - just like her Mom!She's a deep thinker - just like her Mom!Patrice Fagnant-MacArthurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15146572541496916259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865004314650777465.post-15088192315184335922011-05-23T16:43:57.913-04:002011-05-23T16:43:57.913-04:00Such a smartie! I can only begin to agree with Be...Such a smartie! I can only begin to agree with Belly and maybe take the Aristotelian Miriam musing. Your girls are so wonderful!Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865004314650777465.post-9328501124568849682011-05-23T16:07:01.036-04:002011-05-23T16:07:01.036-04:00I'm with Bella!I'm with Bella!Joe P.noreply@blogger.com