(trying out a new app with blogger. Awesome, but I lost my work... take two.)
Let me start off by saying this: since first reading Confessions, this reading was filled with much more light. It was encouraging. It became something I could not put down. Augustine thoughts and language affirmed for me many beliefs I already had. His diction in particular was filled with hope and strength in phrases such as "unbroken peace" and "unchangeable wise." The passage that I fell for was in Chapter 17, paragraph 16, when Augustine writes "while we are on our way." Recently, I have obsessed and been enlightened in the idea of grace. Augustine appears to present a question, but truly he presents a statement of hope. How much more could the Father do than to graciously give His son for us. I was most reminded of the verse in Romans, "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (5:8). He has presented this example of being barred by a hedge of thorns (where I then was reminded of the tale of Sleeping Beauty, but nonetheless). He made a way through grace.
comment on Caleb's blog: http://honorsblogging.blogspot.com/2015/01/god-utilitarian.html?showComment=1421729629146#c8515002975165494703
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