Thoughts for today

Getting back to books that have thrilled me. Dante’s Divine Comedy trilogy is definitely one of those. The second book in the trilogy is called ’Purgatory’, translated by Dorothy L. Sayers . Purgatory was an option when I was a kid, in the forties, that a Soul had instead of Hell. If you were not totally bad, Purgatory was there to hose you down before you went to Heaven. The one liners that stays with me from this read is taken from Canto III , line 33. " A veil between it’s working and our wit." I paraphrase this in my mind to apply it over our struggle to understand God. We seek to know God by creating a veil between our understanding and our wit. This veil being all the concepts of others before us. Given that God made us, why would we be less than what came before us? I say, lay down the veil of the past, and listen to the impressions of the 21st century in regards to the God idea. We stand on the shoulders of the past to get a better look, and we have.