I couldn't leave a comment on the class page so here it is for now...

Raul Moreno Jr
English 100
Cerritos College
Post:12

Separation-Encounter-Return

For me, this I read this as a run down of Christianity and its teachings. It spoke of the details of different levels or revelations in one's spiritual walk with Christ. Paragraph 10 is where we get deep: "True wisdom looks amazingly like naive, silly, and even dangerous simplicity.(10)"Read the book of Proverbs, written in most part by the second wisest man to have ever walked the earth, King Solomon, and you'll immediately begin to refute his absolutely profound wisdom with your current circumstance, making a note of how circumstances simply cannot be ignored and overlooked. We've come to despise wisdom as a whole because of the pain it causes us just as Plato mentioned in AOTC.
Holding the most meaning in this paragraph, Rohr talks of the worst things we can do to someone like Jesus Christ and the greatest is to worship Him. In Christianity we are created to worship God so this seems nonsensical. What the author is stating holds great truth though because when we worship, we might distance ourselves from out Maker. Surely, God is Holy and He is to be revered but the idea and purpose of Christ coming was for God to re-establish a lost connection. Christ was sent to get personal and relate with us on a level that the Holy Father could not and if we are not careful to keep a personal relationship with Christ and instead view Him as only Holy, we might so foolishly distance ourselves with the mindset of never being able to enter through the gate that is Jesus Christ into the presence of God the Father.