Defining Abba As If One Could and Yet

The words below are a description of what I take to be realityAs Jesus suggested the One we cannot name is AbbaA scandalously familiar word to suggest that this OneIs not our enemy and that we have something to do with our own salvation on earthI say on earth advisedly because there is no reasonwhy life does not somehow continueThe One cannot be defined But as we prove out the Way of Abbaand commune with Abba withinand honor Abba's values of tolerance democracyhelpfulness and non-idolatrywe can say the followingwith confidence

Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes