tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146780325302102876.post8676406670614443963..comments2024-03-20T08:06:18.312+00:00Comments on Benny's Blog: Is the dam beginning to break ?Benny Hazlehursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11106740133903626260noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146780325302102876.post-13233060492375813212012-04-24T11:14:05.033+01:002012-04-24T11:14:05.033+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Harveer Shastrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13330959034314182215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146780325302102876.post-58238807686031363232012-04-23T12:04:43.977+01:002012-04-23T12:04:43.977+01:00Is the dam beginning to break? Oh I do hope so. I ...Is the dam beginning to break? Oh I do hope so. I also hope you might forgive my - premature! - blog post with the same idea - The Tipping Point at http://www.layanglicana.org/blog/2012/02/06/the-tipping-point/<br />If we are to have a Spring in the Anglican Church, it will not be like the October Revolution of 1917: I foresee no storming of Lambeth Palace, its residents may be relieved to hear. The nature of the revolution (and, if it comes, it will be a revolution, not a mere revolt) is more akin to the wisdom of the Eastern book, the I Ching: The overlapping hexagrams 39 and 55 read:<br /><br />“An obstruction that lasts only for a time is useful for self-development. That is the value of adversity…the obstruction is overcome not by pressing forward into danger, nor by idly keeping still, but by retreating, yielding…water on the top of a mountain cannot flow down in accordance with its nature, because rocks hinder it. It must stand still. This causes it to increase, and the inner accumulation finally becomes so great that it overflows the barriers. The way of overcoming obstacles lies in turning inward and raising one’s own being to a higher level.”<br /><br /> <br /><br />I pay tribute to my fellow-campaigners, who have almost universally had the spiritual strength not to storm the barricades, but to retreat and yield until the water should reach a higher level. But has that moment finally come? Is it premature to dream of singing in unison Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy‘ (which needs liberating from its EU national anthem status to an expression of heavenly ecstasy as intended)? Will Hyde Park be big enough to contain us all for a big sing, do you think?Lay Anglicanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16731735543104129849noreply@blogger.com