Deep thoughts for bed
I had a generally uneventful day, work and reading and stuff. But there's a passage from Alias Grace that I marked when I read it, I like it a lot:
They are hypocrites, the think the church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in to the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believe they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared. But God is everywhere, and cannot be caged in, as men can.
Isn't that a wonderful passage? The church as a cage is a very evocative metaphor, I love it. Margaret Atwood always does well with metaphors anyway, she probably sits around all day looking for ways to weave good ones into her stories somehow.
ETA: showing off my new awesome and appropriate icon :-p
They are hypocrites, the think the church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in to the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believe they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared. But God is everywhere, and cannot be caged in, as men can.
Isn't that a wonderful passage? The church as a cage is a very evocative metaphor, I love it. Margaret Atwood always does well with metaphors anyway, she probably sits around all day looking for ways to weave good ones into her stories somehow.
ETA: showing off my new awesome and appropriate icon :-p