Thomas Merton said:
If you want to identify me,
ask me not where I live,
or what I like to eat, or
how I comb my hair;
but ask me what I am living for,
in detail, and ask me
what I think is keeping me
from living fully for
the thing I want to live for.
[from Bruderhof]
In an article in C/A Douglas Jones said:
Over a lifetime, the goal is to match our emotional mythologies to the colors of creation, to the color of judgment with which God has dyed every event, person, and thing.
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I don’t think know if this is particually relevant to your post(but it is to this veil of tears) so here goes (from an excerpt from a book recently broused)……..
SARAH EDWARDS SOVEREIGN GOD
Her husband Jonathon Edwards had been away from home for some weeks in 1758 to assume the presidency of Princeton College. On February 13 he was innoculated for smallpox; but the curebecame the killer, and he died from the innoculation on March 22,1758. He was fifty-four years old and left his wife with ten children. When Sarah heard of her husband’s death, the first letter she wrote was to her daughter Esther.
My very dear child!
What shall I say? A holy and good God has covered
us with a dark cloud. O that we may kiss the rod,and lay
our hands on our mouths! The Lord has done it. He has
made me adore his goodness, that we had him so long. But
my God lives; and he has my heart. O what a legacy my
husband, and your father has left us! We are all given
to God; and there I am, and love to be.
Your affectionate mother,
Sarah Edwards
I believe with all my heart that the biblical teaching of God’s sovereignty over Satan is the greatest answer in the world when the very meaning of life is threatened by the horrors and tragedies of death and disease. It is the answer of Scripture and it is true and full of hope.”
Matt, perhaps you’d like to go back and edit Father’s spelling. It would be the respectful thing to do, I feel.
Hmmmm, respect, difficult to define. Perhaps an off-post request for spelling correction may have been more respectful, I am not sure. An interaction with what is obviously a hearfelt issue of faith and assurance may have been more welcome than a jokey criticism. I do not know, perhaps I am projecting too much of my own insecurity, perhaps I should have a more robust sense of “humour”, I apologise if I have missed the joke.
Many miss Richard’s jokes.
” “humour” ”
awesome.
Pearls before swine.