Donna's church was the tallest existing structure during the War of 1812, replacing Boston's Old North Church,which was the tallest existing structure during the American Revolutionary War. Can you find it in he mural. Where in Boston is the mural? Donna opened the library this morning, my having to turn on the lights. She had one or two patrons before the head librarian came down from attending the church service. In effect her ,Donna's seniority was come about. The short story I'm working on mentions her being alone in an empty library, as though it was where God would be, if you wanted to visit, the story itself confronting an earlier story written by John Updike, "The Music School".
Let There Be Love.
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Actually, being in the library, I was just observing one of the minister/professors conducting part of atour of the church, which you are welcome to try and might enjoy, but he had to explain that a service was inprogress to some young adults and that although we have many M.I.T./Harvard studemts attend and that, and I quote his disclaimer, "We are working for God", two which I add that there is an element or dimension of spirituality when entering the building if not a recoginition of the specific spirituality of others. (The Updikes I would not hesitate to invite as their father was Kierkegaardian and I passed a course on Soren Kierkegaard from the University of Copenhagen with an -A, as long as they note my 'joking' about Paul Revere and/or Anne Bradsreet).
We did have a discussion on "The nature of God" this week at the restaraunt and I'm very quick to begin: God is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent and Benevolent and after that the conversation is limitless. Those four givens before we begin. Ministers seem more Christ orientated and Scriptural. This week I quickly added that there are four important things.
In the Old Tetsament: God is Israel and Man Enters a Covenant with God, one in which there is the promise of a Tommorow in exchange for Belief. Added to that, Moses is the greatest Prophet. In the New Testament: God is Love, a love created by his word being all, and Love Thy Neighbor. Those four or five things to explain the "Scriptural" nature of God. They are "tenets" and I am more than amenable to your adding more. If you are in Boston and have already visited our church, here's a link to the Old North church, our Episcopal predecessor. The other really old church in Downtown Boston. If you have time to visit the webpage, you can probably make it to both in person.
