[Origen, A.D.184-254 — Second Reading, Office of Readings today]

Sonnet

You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind.
Keep in mind the last word here.
Not to view scripture literally but using our mind.
Words can be used allegorically by an ancient seer.

Origen was happy to use the Ancient Greek philosophers.
But he was right to ask for an agreed Bible text.
Everything should be rational to help us with our cares.
But all points to a living God and a life that is next.

Why believe in God I wonder.
Is it is because man has a conscience.
Or there has to be a first mover.
Can he be proved by didactic reason or by spiritually awed sense.

I do not know but keep reading.
Somewhere out there a message is sending.

Haiku

Man has a conscience.
There has to be first mover
So does God exist