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It is now the hour for you to wake from sleep, for our salvation is closer than when we first accepted the faith. The night is far spent; the day draws near.I don't really take that in some apocalyptic sense, but rather in the sense of right now - What are you going to do with yourself? If you're going to get serious about this thing, what does that mean for you? Is it a nonchalant matter? What is important, how is that to be done, and what do you have time for? We'd better be answering those questions for ourselves. And we'd better be acting on the answers we come up with. "For ourselves" will cause problems with some - of course, I mean, finding the answers. You know, too, that the answers I find may not be the same as the ones you find. I'm not obligated to live according to the answers you find, nor you to the ones I find. I'm just saying it's time to wake from sleep and stop fumbling around waiting for things to happen. It's time to cast off fear and move into the badlands if you see them before you. I know McLaren said "life is long" and I believe that, and I am not "old" by any stretch of thought, but my life is not as long as some others at this point. That being said, I don't have time to play games. I'm not talking about being anxious and hand-wringingly worried about getting this or that done in a certain time. That kind of harried life is not what I'm pointing to for myself or anyone else. But we can lean too heavily, I think, on the notion that we are part of the Communion of Saints through the ages so it doesn't matter so much what we do because it's not all up to us. I've advocated this position and I still do, within wise reason. If we, though, go too far with it, we sit still and put up with too much nonsense. This may sound odd and like it really doesn't fit here but - it makes me very unhappy to sit and settle. It causes my dopamine levels to fall off the charts. The farther I go along in this life, this thing, being a member of His Body here and now, the less and less I am tolerant of messing around and playing games that only hinder the spread of the Life I've said yes to. I'd say right now that "I'm not doing it any more!" but I know better. I'll not lay down any such hard line statements. I will say this, I feel as if I've stepped over a stream into a new valley in this journey, or perhaps it's a new mountain pass I'm starring in the face (more like that) and so I'm getting the idea about what can make it through this thing with me. I can't carry with me through there what I presently have on my back and in my hands. Something has to be layed down. Prepare me, and us, Lord, in this season of Advent, for His coming in us, in the Church and in the world, in the ways that He is coming. Give us wisdom and strength. Replace fear with love and trust. Amen. ::: ::: permalink ::: e-mail me :::
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three quotes |:: "Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." "Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." "...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self."
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