{"id":118,"date":"2015-02-22T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/loveamongtheruins\/?p=118"},"modified":"2015-02-22T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T18:38:18","slug":"lenten-reflections-from-the-tob-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/loveamongtheruins\/2015\/02\/lenten-reflections-from-the-tob-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Reflections from the TOB Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/521\/2015\/02\/NoahSistineChapel.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-120 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/521\/2015\/02\/NoahSistineChapel.jpg\" alt=\"NoahSistineChapel\" width=\"640\" height=\"325\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Here\u2019s a nice reflection on today\u2019s readings<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Joseph Pieper is correct in saying that to love someone means to say \u201cIt is good that you exist\u201d, then these words of God are <em>down right gut wrenching<\/em> \u2013 for they represent a one hundred and eighty degree turn in the mind of God, who upon having created man, declared him to not just be good, but <em>very good<\/em> (cf. Gen 1:31). As we recall from the creation story, man\u2019s fall from God\u2019s favor and grace began with perhaps what seemed to be a small infraction \u2013 eating a piece of fruit that no one else was seemingly going to touch. From there sin quickly spiraled out of control to the point where God was so crushed by man\u2019s disobedience that he would drown the earth with his tears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest at the Theology of the Body Institute\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobinstitute.org\/2015\/02\/19\/reflection-first-sunday-lent\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Also, I wrote a post on this topic last year: <a href=\"http:\/\/through-a-glass-brightly.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/alterdiluvian-art-sampling-of-superior.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alterdiluvian Art: A Sampling of Superior Noahs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Here\u2019s a nice reflection on today\u2019s readings.] If Joseph Pieper is correct in saying that to love someone means to say \u201cIt is good that you exist\u201d, then these words of God are down right gut 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