Like a man who eternally gathers himself for a dive (Annie Dillard)

   Faith would be that God moved and moves once and for all and ‘down,’ so to speak, like a diver, like a man who eternally gathers himself for a dive and eternally is diving, and eternally splitting the spread of the water, and eternally drowned.

--Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

Image source:  Christo degli abissi (Christ of the Abyss), San Fruttuoso, Liguria, Italy.

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Commentary on Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm by Thomas W. Mann:  Dillard’s title, Holy the Firm, is a marvelous metaphor for the Incarnation.  That which is holy – which means utterly distinct from human being – is combined with that which is firm, something solid, concrete, physical, and utterly human.  God is revealed in Christ; the Word becomes flesh…  (Thomas Mann, To Taste and See:  Exploring the Incarnation and the Ambiguities of Faith)