We had sunrise photos, 'new day' stuff until recent. On the civil stuff, that's a long game with next bout of 'fun' not till mid-September. Even closer to home, the new rector should bring some stabilizing and hopefully discipline of order. Then personally, there's a book, a movie & tour coming very soon.
This week we have the sudden death of one bishop and the sudden grave illness of another. Both inspired leaders. We know also there are other bishops - including diocesans on "both sides of the aisle" who are suffering greatly tonight. How can we be blind to that suffering? It's real.
Blaming conspiracies or projecting acts of contrived disloyalty (on either side) are attempts, we are thinking (at least at this table) of ways to escape the pain, the deep pain of this separation. Forgiveness means bearing that pain and for many who are walking through forgiveness (again, on either side) the cost is a broken heart. For others who cannot bear such a road, the cost is brokenness.
"A broken and contrite heart I will not despise" the Lord says in the Pslams. Before anything else, before the Church even, we fall on our knees to Jesus.
It is the favorite family members of my ex-fiancée that brought home Mal 2:16 and the consequence of divorce. There is a cost, even when the best thing to do is separate (here heresy, other adultery & abuse) there is still a sacrifice.
BTW -- your being kind of spooky. This morning, I wrote a VERY long reply about forgiveness with one unrepentant as an act of letting go. I decided not to post.
Then I see your MW Smith Youtube post from 12:14 today.
I know the Michael W. Smith video is a literal story about a father and his child. But as I watched it, it also struck me that it could be a metaphor of Truro and it broke me up.
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'Tis an odd selection from you.
We had sunrise photos, 'new day' stuff until recent. On the civil stuff, that's a long game with next bout of 'fun' not till mid-September. Even closer to home, the new rector should bring some stabilizing and hopefully discipline of order. Then personally, there's a book, a movie & tour coming very soon.
The pure gravity of the over-all?
This week we have the sudden death of one bishop and the sudden grave illness of another. Both inspired leaders. We know also there are other bishops - including diocesans on "both sides of the aisle" who are suffering greatly tonight. How can we be blind to that suffering? It's real.
Blaming conspiracies or projecting acts of contrived disloyalty (on either side) are attempts, we are thinking (at least at this table) of ways to escape the pain, the deep pain of this separation. Forgiveness means bearing that pain and for many who are walking through forgiveness (again, on either side) the cost is a broken heart. For others who cannot bear such a road, the cost is brokenness.
"A broken and contrite heart I will not despise" the Lord says in the Pslams. Before anything else, before the Church even, we fall on our knees to Jesus.
The photo is of the shores of Cornwall, England.
bb
Sad events indeed.
It is the favorite family members of my ex-fiancée that brought home Mal 2:16 and the consequence of divorce. There is a cost, even when the best thing to do is separate (here heresy, other adultery & abuse) there is still a sacrifice.
BTW -- your being kind of spooky. This morning, I wrote a VERY long reply about forgiveness with one unrepentant as an act of letting go. I decided not to post.
Then I see your MW Smith Youtube post from 12:14 today.
Kevin
I know the Michael W. Smith video is a literal story about a father and his child. But as I watched it, it also struck me that it could be a metaphor of Truro and it broke me up.
bb
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