Verbally assented to all the right things
Loved all the wrong things
Believed they were better than everyone else
Trusted in their entitlement
Were blind to it all
Lord, have mercy on us.
dw
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If it were the end of days
If it were the end of days,
I’d say:
Let’s do this,
See what God begins next.
Let’s do it together,
See how God loves
from the very next beginning
To the never-ending end.
dw
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Disconsolate
How many times,
(how many times!),
have I turned to music
To hear God’s voice
when there was no other way
to know he was near?
I hope this hymn, sung by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, brings consolation and healing to whatever you may be experiencing.
Grace and peace to you…
dw
Grieving goes only
where Brave is willing
Brave is alone
trusting
It feels alone
dw
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Give Paul a Break
You may be tempted to read the letters written by the Apostle Paul.
My advice: Don’t. Not yet.
Not until you’ve soaked in the Gospels for a good while. And John’s letters. And James’s letter. And Peter’s letters. And maybe a good bit of the Old Testament.
Why? It’s easy to get things all turned around otherwise.
It’s easy, because of Paul’s logic and eloquence and personal story, to make Jesus about Paul instead of Paul about Jesus.
Paul would scold us for that.
But the church has split itself into hundreds of factions because it got things turned around, mostly about what Paul wrote.
Reading Paul is like handing a dangerous chemical: if you don’t handle it carefully, it can can be deadly to you and others.
So, stick with the Gospels. And the letters of John and James and Peter. For now, anyway.
(Even Peter struggled a bit with Paul’s writings…he writes about it!)
Grace and peace to you…
dw
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