And God says, "Where are you?"...(the "Oh, shit..." revisited)
Undoubtedly, some will find a great deal of discomfort with my previous blog. Upon further reflection, somehow I was reminded of the age-old story of the first humans. After having eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (something they were commanded not to do), they noticed they were naked (another completely foreign concern), they heard God walking in the garden (huh?), and then Yahweh asks a fascinating question, "Where are you?"
Always been taken aback by that one...
...from a biblical perspective, then, perhaps our contemporary "Oh, shit..." was for the writer of Genesis, "Where are you?" I don't take this to mean that the creator of the universe is oblivious, but rather that this strange God savored a perpetual 'encounter' (to borrow Buber's language) with the human creatures and then it was violently dismembered.
May we re-member well...