Status Updates From Waiting for God

"Hay que saber que el amor es una orientación y no un estado del alma. Si se ignora, se cae en la desesperación al primer embate de la desdicha".

"Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God"

Pretty certain I was assigned this reading while in Divinity School. Very good work here, perhaps one of the most recommendable of the book. Weil is concerned that we grow our powers of attention, to the task at hand, to the pursuit of Truth, to God, and to the sufferings of others.

I'm in her third letter now. By far the best so far.

"There the conviction was suddenly borne in upon me that Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of slaves, that slaves cannot help belonging to it, and I among others." P.26

Initially I thought this book had the power to return me back into my faith-yet the further I read, the less convinced I am left. As I see it , she presents the contradictions from various Christian literature and directs them as virtues. the continuous glorification of suffering- accepting it as the attention (love) from God makes me uncomfortable.

Reading “Waiting for God” has made me realise how much I underestimated the power of words. I have never felt this spiritually moved and I’m not even half way through.

la amo tanto

I would like to introduce simone to the prison industrial complex

🎵 judgyyyyyyyyyyyy 🎵