Someday, I will write a brilliant post on the topic, but for now, I will leave a teaser. I was thinking about the Incarnation, Plato, and Dr. Who, and I love some of the correlations I have found. Plato's theory of the form combined with an understanding of the love of God sheds light on how God can both love me in all my sin from day to day while having a perfect image of who and what I was made to be, a part of his pure, spotless bride all at the same time. He knows my form, and he knows me. And being God, he can keep it all straight. God and Dr. Who. God is not a part of time, he is outside of time. So, as time is one sort of timey-wimey bubble thing, I can pray about events that happened twenty years ago and God can still act in that moment to both hear my prayer at present and act on my prayer at the recipients present. I love it when my head explodes. Dear Lord, please make seminary affordable so I can have it happen more often?