[Nemesis]

I recently recovered and read the book "Mister God, This is Anna" by Fynn, which I found wonderful and recommend to everyone.

Mister God, This Is Anna is an enchanted little book which presents to us the very large in the very small... we encounter the infinite in the finite... in truth that is exactly the way we all encounter the Divine God, no matter how erudite and sophisticated we may deceive ourselves into thinking we are... the deeper the "theological sophistry" the larger is the shovel required to bale it out.

This small volume brings into our life a small child...a five year old girl (just exactly as she appeared into the life of "Fynn")... and just as Fynn had the scales fall from his own eyes as he discoursed with this street urchin/angelic waif... so too will this encounter open our spiritual eyes to the incarnate presence of "Mister God" in our own lives.

We can see a bit more clearly, through a glass made a bit less dark, if we try to look through the eyes of Anna, this five year old little girl as she opens her thoughts to Fynn... and to us.

here is an extract, just read on!

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Her ability to ignore the excesses of information, dismiss the useless frill and uncover the heart of things was truly magical.

'Fynn, I love you.'

When Anna said that, every word was shattered with the fullness of meaning she packed into it.

Her 'I' was a totality. Whatever this 'I' was for Anna it was packed tight with being.

Like the light that didn't fray, Anna's 'I' didn't fray either; it was pure and all of one piece. Her use of the word 'love' was not sentimental or mushy, it was impelling and full of courage and encouragement.

For Anna, 'love' meant the recognition of perfectibility in another. Anna 'saw' a person in every part. Anna 'saw' a 'you'. Now that is something to experience, to be seen as a 'you', clearly and definitely, with no parts hidden. Wonderful and frightening.

I'd always understood that it was Mister God who saw you clearly and in your entirety but then all Anna's efforts were directed to being like Mister God, so perhaps the trick is catching if only you try hard enough.

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and what are your recommendations?