I had a sudden feeling last-night that it was important that everybody needs to Get A Grip - and soon.
This, because I felt that the time is near when when we will need to know For Ourselves and Affirm in our Hearts, that which is positively-good, true and motivating to us personally.
And it struck me that it is vital that what we Get A Grip upon be grippable...
By which I mean, that-which-is-gripped - and upon-which we need to depend independently of external institutional or personal encouragement or validation - must really be gripped.
To be gripped it must be small-enough, that is to say simple-enough and clear-enough, for us truly to grasp what it is that we are affirming, and will be living-by (in our secret hearts, when speech is not allowed).
Complex systems and structures of theology and doctrine and practices will not suffice - because we forget the details or misremember, we get lost in them.... there is altogether too much wriggle room.
Abstractions and "mysteries" do not work either - because we do not understand them well enough to hold-fast; and, again, because their cloudy-imprecision fails to provide the purchase necessary for lucid inner guidance.
Christians are fortunate because we have (if we choose to accept it) an exceptionally clear and simple and graspable inner vision; which is following Jesus Christ through death to eternal resurrected life in Heaven.
Once conceptualized and affirmed; this is independent of The World, does not require further input, and - if desired from the heart and grasped firmly - it has the requisites of being invulnerable to the pressures and corruptions which assail us.
It is that upon-which I shall be endeavouring to close and strengthen my grip.
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