choosing the weak to shame the strong. God is choosing the low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing the things that are. Perhaps we’ve heard this message before. Maybe even a hundred times. It just might be that the message is getting stale. After all, we know what’s coming next. It’s the same thing every year the cross followed by the resurrection. And – instead of feeling spiritually alive, we may come before God this year simply feeling numbed to all of the patterns and the repetition. Finally, we ask, does “what any of this have to do with the world, anyway?” real Our church is currently reading a book about prayer written by a Presbyterian author named Anne Lamott. She writes, lives are hard, even “human those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense… We don’t understand a lot of things. But we learn that people are disappointing, and that they break very our hearts, and that very sweet people will be bullied, and that we be called to will survive unsurvivable losses, and that we will realize with enormous pain how much of our lives we’ve already wasted with obsessive work or pleasing people or dieting.”
choosing the weak to shame the strong. God is choosing the low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing the things that are. Perhaps we’ve heard this message before. Maybe even a hundred times. It just might be that the message is getting stale. After all, we know what’s coming next. It’s the same thing every year – the cross followed by the resurrection. And instead of feeling spiritually alive, we may come before God this year simply feeling numbed to all of the patterns and the repetition. Finally, we ask, “what does any of this have to do with the real world, anyway?” Our church is currently reading a book about prayer written by a Presbyterian author named Anne Lamott. She writes, “human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense… We don’t understand a lot of things. But we learn that people are very disappointing, and that they break our hearts, and that very sweet people will be bullied, and that we will be called to survive unsurvivable losses, and that we will realize with enormous pain how much of our lives we’ve already wasted with obsessive work or pleasing people or dieting.”
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