God is Crazy

You are a mess, and you are loved.

You have a little issue with anger, and you are loved…

You think we are going through this alone, but you are wrong, and you are loved

The thing you are experiencing right now seems to big, but what is better is that you are loved.

                                                                From Nadia Bolz-Weber’s book  Accidental Saints, p.167

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we think we understand god

but we don’t

we talk about God’s justice

and we talk about Jesus needing to experience God’s wrath

to experience God’s justice

because God must satisfy justice

and placate the rules

and thus someone has to pay

but that is because that is how we look at it

we would have to get our vengeance

we would have to make sure people were

held accountable

for what they have done or not done

that is how we think

just look at our overcrowded prisons

is that how God thinks?

we think we (and everyone else)

has to earn God’s love

so we stumble through life, looking over our shoulders

wondering if we are being “good enough” for God

worrying about

the consequences of failure

will we be cursed somehow

will we end up

burning in the fires of hell for all eternity

because that is how we think

is that how God thinks?

we look at everything from our perspective

and we limit God

and in limiting God

we become as judgement and angry

and hurtful

as the God we create

but we are told

by none less than God

“my thoughts are not your thoughts

 my ways are not your ways”

what we see in the man

Jesus

Is that God is more than willing to throw the rules

away (out of the proverbial window)

for the sake of love

perhaps

the cross is more profoundly about love

and modeling the way of love than about justice

and God is more than willing to overlook our worst

for the sake of love

so God invites to the table

the dregs of humanity

come to the table, come to the feast!

God is crazy in love

with us

God is crazy

like

that