For sin is ultimately a refusal to grow
Jean
Danielou, reflecting on Gregory of Nysa
Why am I confident that the people of faith… will keep moving
forward?
… because of the reality and presence of the creator with
creation. This is God’s world.
… because of Jesus.
We are stuck with Jesus, and he won’t go away… Jesus cannot be
contained. He rises again. He keeps
coming back…
We also have the presence of Jesus, the Spirit of Jesus,
the Spirit and breath and Wind and Fire of God, alive and active in us and all
around us.
Biran
Mclaren, “A New Kind of Christianity”
___________________________
God
Creator, Savior, Enable
What must you think of us
Are we a blot on your amazing creation?
Do we walk away from your grace?
We rebel
We do deplorable things in your name.
We pout, we cower
We hide behind lies
We become fearful hoarders
And the world disintegrates,
The human family becomes dysfunctional?
The evidence is there
A pastor with asphalt burns on his face
The immigrant, terrified in the grasp of brutal creatures
in masks
The young girl, curled embryonically on the seat of a
private jet
The mother whose EBT card is as empty as her children’s stomachs
Some say it has always been this way!
So?
We cannot afford the sin of apathy
We cannot do nothing
So, remind us, Lord, what it means to be blessed
To be a blessing
Awaken us, speak to us, teach us
Fill us
Again and again
Be relentless,
Come, find us as we hide
Inspire us as we flounder in the ooze and slime of old
decay
Creator God, Serving God, Present God
Make us new every day
Change us
That we might be yeast,
Seeds of change
The light of hope
For you are love
And you love us
Always
Amen
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