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Our Pathway To God: Scent, Tom Ryan
Our Pathway To God: Scent, Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan
AT A FAMILY Christmas gathering
recently, one of the women opened
her gift. She found a bottle of Chanel
No.5. Need more be said about her reaction...
Why? This particular designer brand name
has been almost cauterised into our modern
consciousness—much to the dismay of its
competitors. Think of the billions of dollars
spent annually on perfume, eau de Cologne
and after-shave lotions. Or in the advertising
industry that surrounds them...
Our Pathway To God: Touch, Tom Ryan
Our Pathway To God: Touch, Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan
IN LITERATURE speaking of touch, prayer
and God, the text most often used is one
cited in the previous article on Sight in this
journal. In 1 John 1:1, the witnesses of the
incarnation say how 'we...have touched with
our hands...the Word, who is life.' This
underlines what is more explicitly stated in the
Prologue of John's Gospel: 'The Word was
made flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his
glory, the glory that is his as the only Son of
the Father, full of grace and truth' or in Paul's
comment that 'the full content of divine nature …