This week Pastor Chris shares a message about the playful, joyful, and beautiful nature of God, inspired by the book Divine Enjoyment by Elaine Padilla.
Live Teaching Podcast
Scripture & Quotations
“What if we imagined God totally wrong?”
– Elaine Padilla
“Let us inaugurate the age of the God who belly laughs out loud in disruptive ways! Let us welcome play! And let us join in a celebration that welcomes the elements of air, fire, water, and earth, the interconnectivity with all living beings!”
– Elaine Padilla
Joy for its own sake, laughter and conviviality without pretext, meeting time's advance with unapologetic delight, raucous noise, good friends — these are nothing less than the eruption of the hidden light cracking the conventional crust of our mature good sense, our dehumanizing obsession with control, our idolatrous reliance on possession as salvation."
– Rabbi Bradley Artson
“I suspect that somewhere in the Bible there's a passage that says: ‘Let your guard down, lighten up, give yourself to life, Let yourself be playful, arriba arriba.’ In Spanish arriba is an exclamation of delight; when we find ourselves falling into states of delight, isn't there something holy about it? Doesn't even God, whoever and whatever God is, share in the joy? Arriba Ariba.”
– Jay McDaniel