Mr. Tumnus: [of Aslan] He's not a tame lion.
Lucy Pevensie: No... but he's good.
Friday, January 19, 2007
anything but abandonment ...
Mr. Tumnus: [of Aslan] He's not a tame lion.
Lucy Pevensie: No... but he's good.
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"Any Fifth Street Promenade tarot card reader would be thrilled to nail a prediction as accurately as William Booth did one hundred years ago. 'I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.'"
Whomever you are anon, thank you for posting that quote.
bb
Baby Blue,
Last March, or so, I posted the following to the House of Bishops/Deputies listserv:
MOVE GENERAL CONVENTION 2006 TO NEW ORLEANS: REASON #1: HERE KITTIE.
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;
R. Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.
The Lion of Judah is not tame:
Mr. Tumnus: [of Aslan] He's not a tame lion.
Lucy Pevensie: No... but he's good.
About 2976 years ago, more or less: "And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back. And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD ... your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'" ... And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and ... the lion also stood beside the body. And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the lion standing by the body.... And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD spoke to him."" I Kings 13: 20 et seq.
Before he encountered the lion on his (Damascus) road, the man of God confessed to Jeroboam that he should not yield to the blandishments of creature comforts, particularly when doing so necessarily excluded heeding God's express command. Yet he did so.
General Convention 2006 should not prefer creature comforts to service to the poor--at cost and discomfort. Watch for the lion on the road.
Wow, thank you for posting that too, anon!
bb
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