Beneath the juniper…
A wrestling match
If you see your deep questions about life, about purpose, about suffering, about God as a wrestling match with God himself, how does this impact your view of the eventual outcome?
Put down the rocks and work!
We’ve got our rocks in our hands, and, oh, we want to throw them!
The addiction of sin
Sin is an addiction. It’s getting something we consider good in a way that’s wrong.
A strange power
It seems as if the Cross is the template we’re being urged to work from, not the Garden of Eden that preceded it.
We’re invited
Somehow, some way, I know I’m asked, invited — we all are — to bear our sorrows right along with him.
It’s personal
Suffering is personal, intensely so, and we’re never the only person present.
I can choose life
… this is God’s domain
one of dumbfounded power
grace
joy
a bulwark of solidity…
Find a way to walk on water
Maybe the best way to see the world comes from our willingness to walk on water.
It’s God and us
If we choose to listen, however, to the positive thoughts, we will see they bring with them a power the lies do not have. They also bring wisdom, insight, and a strange comfort.