New Year's Ambitions (etc)

[izhilzha]

First, that resolutions meme that's been going around:

In 2007,

Comments

[wneleh]

Like the Doctor, only more so. :-)

:-) I don't think I truly started to build an understanding of God until I read Lord of the Rings and realized that Gandalf wasn't God.

- Helen

[kerravonsen]

and realized that Gandalf wasn't God.

Do you mean -- that God wasn't like Gandalf, or what?

[wneleh]

Up until that point (I was around 12 or 13), I'd conceived of God as a kind, wise old man who did magic tricks of various magnitudes as needed. Having Gandalf embody that, and yet be so far from God-the-creator-redeemer-sustainer, helped me remove some of the limits I'd placed on my conception of God.

- Helen

[izhilzha]

That's awesome. :-) Lord of the Rings did something similar to me, though less profound, by teaching me the true meaning of "kingship" and "lordship," which aren't concepts that the modern mind is necessarily familiar with.