Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.
I find it both ironic and sad that the same critics who are so zealous to point out the latest charismatic false prophecy are so quick to bear false witness against others -- and so utterly resistant to recognize their own sins. This is highly displeasing in the Lord's sight.
This 🤬 is SAD man! Kids are being shot and somebody didn’t come home tonight. We cannot allow this to be normal. We cannot ourselves to become numb and chalk it up to “just another shooting in America” and reduce people in statistics and then move on tmrw.
This is a SERIOUS PROBLEM!! I pray our leaders enact real solutions so our kids’ kids won’t know this violence.
Trauma always includes loss. The victim’s sense of self is altered as is their way of functioning in this world. Trauma can dismantle faith and hope and it turns what we thought was true upside down and backwards. Grieving their losses is grueling work.
The body of Christ is called to be a sacred place for the vulnerable. We have often chosen to be a safe place for the powerful and have deceived ourselves into believing that God would call that good.
The news yesterday of MLS decision to pull first teams from the US Open Cup is very disappointing and one we do not support. We stand with ISC and it's members in voicing this concern.
Trauma recovery needs tears.
Tears honor the victim and the awfulness of what occurred.
Tears are a way of remembering.
Tears honor who or what has been lost; they are worth crying over.
Institutions, organizations, ministries, places, systems are not Jesus Christ. Nor is Christendom the same as the living body of Christ. I fear many of us have confused Christendom, or our little corner of it, with Christ. They are not, nor have they ever been the same.