Thank you so very much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ, and thank you for graphic and the fascinating excerpt!
I particularly like this:
The thought that the relation between mind and the world is something fundamental makes many people in this day and age nervous. I believe this is one manifestation of a fear of religion which has large and often pernicious consequences for modern intellectual life.
And I for one see man as a steward only. Man never truly "owns" anything.
The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. - Psalms 24:1
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? - Matthew 20:15
To God be the glory, not man, never man.
82 posted on 04/13/2010 10:11:01 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl