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Staring into the Sun

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  See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. (1 John 3:1 NRSV)   When we call God “Father ”,  we have an entire background and tradition behind this description.  Many of us have grown up praying to God as our Father (“Father God ”,  “Heavenly Father”  etc.).   It is easy to take for granted that , although having some precedent in the Hebrew Bible, this  was a  revolutionary concept !   It was like an explosion going off in the ancient world a long with the  proclamation of  the Good  News   during the first decades of the church. If we halt and  ruminate over this idea, it can open so many rusty doors in our minds and displace our misconceptions of who God really is.    For many of us, our first instinct concerning God  is  fear or dread.  Much of this may be our inherent alienation  from  God due to our natural bent as broken rebels. Some...
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Broken Harps

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I think that all of us eventually come to the realization , even if it’s a thought that blinks on and off quickly through our minds,   is that this world isn’t what it should be. Even if comfort and ease make up a large portion of our lives, we have a gnawing suspicion that deep down, things must be better than this. Unless we are completely numb and slightly (or not so slightly) sociopathic, we can clearly see suffering all around us. For a lot of us suffering and loss have significantly formed our lives. We live in its shadow, like a house built on the side of a mountain . People have called life a “veil of tears ”, and no matter how much scientific advancement or human ingenuity is at play, all our lives are affected by the brokenness in the world. This brokenness in turn shatters us, and no matter what veneer we cover our defects with, they are still present rotting under the surf ace.   We don’t like talking about our brokenness; it’s taboo to highlight o...
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