Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
What is this World? What kind of place is it?“The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in...
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What is this World? What kind of place is it?“The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the carpets to eat my dead skin as it flakes off . . . The kind with people who kill and people who love and people who do both . . .This world is beautiful but badly broken. “I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn’t stuck in one place. It is full of conflict and darkness like every good story, a world of surprises and questions to explore. And there’s someone behind it; there are uncomfortable answers to the hows and whys and whats. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through Him were all things made . . .Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Let the pages flick your thumbs.”
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780849920073 (0849920078)
ASIN: 849920078
Publish date: June 30th 2009
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Culture,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Christian,
Faith,
Christianity,
Spirituality,
Theology
I have to admit that I started off slightly annoyed with this book. Perhaps it was because the stupid US Postal Service torqued the package in such a way as to rip an inch long gash in my book half way down the spine. No fault of Wilson's that. Perhaps I didn't get the vibe of the book right away be...