adventures in missing the point... not the book --> but read it
back in chi-town. feels good... in a way.
i enter upon harrassments from friends and family-- "i thought you died or something" and "how long are you in? a day?". hm. i'm not laughing.
question in sunday school?-- "what is the connection between justice and knowing god?" red flags and buzzers go off inside my entire being as the rest of the class sits in silence. why are we missing this? why are we missing Isaiah 58, James 1:29, Psalm 37, Psalm 140:12, Proverbs 29:7, Jeremiah 9:23-24... the list goes on in the hundreds. why am i missing it? who is this person of jesus? why don't i look more like him? why do we miss this problem of injustice? why do we fast as we "exploit our workers"? we go on thinking that we are doing so much when obedience is more honorable in God's eyes than a burnt offering any day. breaking the yolk of the oppressed is obedience? yes.
why are we so concerned for god's specific will for our life and if we are on the right longitude and latitude coordinates on the globe? his will is stated clearly-- love god. love your neighbor and i think if you look a little bittle deeper into that verse-- love yourself is in there too. i could spend a lifetime learning to love all three of those and probably will.
sometimes i feel like i think differently than everyone else and get set off by certain comments that most people wouldn't think twice. while coincedentally when confronted with the "3 deadly sins": profanity, "crude conversation" or homosexuality, they phase me little. i don't know if that's right or wrong, good or bad but maybe its not about that at all. maybe i take myself to seriously. hm. i'm not laughing am i?
i enter upon harrassments from friends and family-- "i thought you died or something" and "how long are you in? a day?". hm. i'm not laughing.
question in sunday school?-- "what is the connection between justice and knowing god?" red flags and buzzers go off inside my entire being as the rest of the class sits in silence. why are we missing this? why are we missing Isaiah 58, James 1:29, Psalm 37, Psalm 140:12, Proverbs 29:7, Jeremiah 9:23-24... the list goes on in the hundreds. why am i missing it? who is this person of jesus? why don't i look more like him? why do we miss this problem of injustice? why do we fast as we "exploit our workers"? we go on thinking that we are doing so much when obedience is more honorable in God's eyes than a burnt offering any day. breaking the yolk of the oppressed is obedience? yes.
why are we so concerned for god's specific will for our life and if we are on the right longitude and latitude coordinates on the globe? his will is stated clearly-- love god. love your neighbor and i think if you look a little bittle deeper into that verse-- love yourself is in there too. i could spend a lifetime learning to love all three of those and probably will.
sometimes i feel like i think differently than everyone else and get set off by certain comments that most people wouldn't think twice. while coincedentally when confronted with the "3 deadly sins": profanity, "crude conversation" or homosexuality, they phase me little. i don't know if that's right or wrong, good or bad but maybe its not about that at all. maybe i take myself to seriously. hm. i'm not laughing am i?
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