Fr Ron Rolheiser offers a powerful illustration of the paschal mystery in real life. These four minutes capture the whole story: name your deaths, claim your births, grieve and adjust, stop clinging and let it go, accept the spirit of the life you are already living.
I'm deeply grateful that scripture isn't a collection of sanitized stories of holy people. It's rather a collection of stories of ordinary, broken people loved by God, and made holy through a righteousness outside of themselves.
When our story is told a century from now - and it will be - how much of the American church ran after idols and delusions, false christs and conspiracies, history will not only fault the pastors for not confronting us with the truth but the congregations who forbade them to.
We are not powerful enough to thwart the plans of God, so we can rest in the hope of Christ & have peace for tomorrow’s outcome.
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For those who have the freedom to choose to vote...
Vote because you have the privilege, not because you are obligated.
Vote your conscience knowing that the fate of the world does not hang in the balance.
Vote knowing you are loved by God regardless of who you cast your ballot for; your selection does not give you bonus points with God.
Vote with confidence that Jesus reigns & is working all things together for good.
1) Pondering Jer.22:13 NLT(1996): And the Lord says, “Destruction is certain forJehoiakim, who builds his palace with forced labor. By not paying wages, he builds injustice into its walls and oppression into its door frames and ceilings. “
The ability to keep our eyes on Christ when those we esteem falters reveals the sincerity our faith & who we serve—God or people. At some point we’re gonna have to make a choice.
If you’re gonna let a little name-calling keep you from standing up for what you believe according to the Word of God is gospel truth, you ain’t ready. White supremacy has held tight in much of the church for so long because the racists outlasted the anti racists.
Outlast THEM.