by alliebath » January 11th, 2007, 11:03 pm
David, if you think of his famous ‘Canticle of the Sun’ (originally known as ‘Canticle of the Creatures’—‘creature’ literally covering everything created, both animate and inanimate)—Francis sees the beauty and glory in the sun and the moon and the stars, but also in the wind and in the rain, and even in bodily death. To like ‘weather’ therefore is to appreciate all aspects of the creatures/creativity of God—wind and rain, snow, sunshine—even death. In that light, I think ‘liking weather’ is Franciscan.
Can you share more about your presentation and your choice of this particular phrase?
As a further aside, the whole structure of NICE is based on not liking or appreciating God’s creativity and creatures, of course. They dig up the wood, they tear up the college, ‘renovate’ the town—institutionalise everything. The whole countryside (and the populace) is just there to be exploited by industry and technology. The very opposite of ‘liking weather’.
Gott würfelt nicht.
Albert Einstein