Stuff happens all the time
that makes me want to scribble God a "Dear John" letter. But I
haven't found a better option besides God. What I have found is that it is an
act of faithfulness to bring the range of human experiences before God. The
harder themes [of doubt, barrenness, pain and longing] are just as real and
significantly shape our faith and our images of God and of ourselves in
relation to God as the more pleasant ones we tend to focus on.
For the most part, we do not
do a good job in Western society of sitting in places of discomfort. We do not
know how to sit with our own pain or the pain of others. As a result, we can
really miss out on deepening compassion and engagement with our communities
that could lead to more healing, in all senses of the word.
-- Enuma Okoro, in an interview with Christianity
Today Blog for Women about her devotional
Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent (Upper Room,
2012)
#3125
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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THAT is so true. I think we remember Jesus with the crown of thorns and the cross. Rather uncomfortable, right?
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