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First, in this morning's Morning Prayer, one little bit jumped out at me. This same bit has awakened in my spiritual eyes before. I saw it again today. O Lord, you mete out peace to us,"...it is you who have accomplished all we have done." Amazing statement. Whole systematic theologies have been written to try to explain this, or discount it, or something. It kind of falls in that area of mystery I think. Well, have we done it or has God done it? What's the deal? Is it up to me or up to Him? How is it that He has accomplished something that I have done? Weird, isn't it? Yes, it's weird. Lots of things about God and how humans interact and relate to and with Him are very, very weird. Some of these things seem paradoxical. How can both be true? Because -- they just are. To explain "how" is to try to fit something into our minds that just won't presently fit. Trust. Faith. This is what we need in these cases. And yes, I said presently fit - because I firmly believe God did not create us to be so limited. Our minds were created to know as He knows. We're just broken. We're in the process of getting fixed though. Until then, let's try to find some rest in that statement - let the weight lift off our shoulders - HE has accomplished all we have done.  I just bought this book: God, Christ and Us by Herbert McCabe OP. I just got it yesterday so I've only read a couple of pages, but it seems good so far. He's actually talking about faith in the first chapter, so it fits the above topic. He's talking about Hebrews 11. Here's a little quote:For the author of Hebrews, faith has to do with what we do not yet see, what we hope for. It has to do with what is over the horizon. If you like, it is what lures us on to journey over the horizon to look at what we cannot yet see. ...Here, faith is all about trying to understand. It is about not being content to understand the things that are obvious, the things we can already see. It is about trying to understand what we do not yet see. It is about setting out on a journey to explore what we have not yet seen.Seems like good stuff so far. I'll let you know as I go along. If you're a FaceBook-y and are interested in liturgical prayer or monastic prayer, spirituality and practices, I've started a FaceBook group called Liturgical & Monastic Prayer. Hopefully it'll be a cool little place to pool that common interest, encourage each other, and share resources. Feel free to join if this is something you're interested in.  Ahh, like a little kid, I'm kind of excited about a few upgrades I've been able to do to my PowerBook G4 (Aluminum) this week. Hee hee hee! We got a good chunk back as a tax refund already, so other than paying stuff off, I talked to Liz and earmarked an amount to use so I could beef up my computer. If I'm going to be working on it, I sure can't afford to buy a new one, but I can at least optimize what I have. So, all for around $350, I was able to buy a new battery, a new AC adapter/charger cord, max out the RAM with 2GB of memory, and get a 500GB external firewire hard drive. Niiice. I did my shopping to find good deals. Everything is new but not necessarily Apple branded and the hard drive was on sale. Everything is here and working great so far except the memory. I'm anxious to see what kind of performance enhancement that will make to my system. OK, that's it for the geek report. Peace.technorati tags > lent, god's grace, herbert mccabe, daily office, powerbook upgrade Labels: computers, lent, liturgical prayer, theology :::
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is a burden without a reliever." "...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
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