Half the professors at Yale Divinity School say that the fact that bad things happen to good people proves that God doesn't exist.
Maybe I'm being overly simplistic but...
There are no good people ("all have sinned" "all our righteousness is filthy rags")
We can't tell the difference between good happenings in our lives and bad ones (See Job). We do know that "all things work together for good to those who love God." This doesn't mean that all things are good, but it doesn't mean that they aren't, and doesn't change the fact that we can't prove that anything bad has ever happened to anyone...
Friday, October 26, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
very rough...suggestions welcome
Sparrows
Am I a sparrow compared to
“He sees the sparrow fall” but what does that mean?
Some database in the sky records yet another fluttering fall?
Spiraling thump
Sprawl
Rumpled, scattered feathers
“6,972 today”…
Am I really falling or do I just think I am?
Does a fallen sparrow ever get up?
What does it take to give a falling sparrow the wings of eagles?
Do sparrows eat mustard seeds?
Do they stay sparrows?
Am I afraid to be a sparrow?
A Marriage Feast
John 2:4
Jesus saith unto her, "Women, what have I to do with thee? My hour is not yet come".
John 2:6
And there were set six water pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews...
Jesus was preparing his mother for a realization that probably wouldn't dawn until the cross. When Jesus asked Mary "what have I to do with thee?" Mary would instinctively think "you're my son!" But Jesus answered his own question symbolically by turning the water of purification into wine, a symbol of his cleansing blood. Doubtless, this miracle left Mary initially perplexed, but at the cross, Mary would have the greatest possible comfort available to a mother losing the most wonderful son the world has ever seen. Perhaps an inkling of what she was gaining at the loss of her son began to dawn on Mary on that dark day.
At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus gently planted a seed in Mary's mind. Eventually, the seed would grow into Mary's realization that the most important relationship she had with Jesus was not mother to son, but sinner to Savior.
We serve a infinitely tender, loving God, and His relationship with us is far more intimate than any human attachment.
Are you ready for the Marriage Feast?
Jesus saith unto her, "Women, what have I to do with thee? My hour is not yet come".
John 2:6
And there were set six water pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews...
Jesus was preparing his mother for a realization that probably wouldn't dawn until the cross. When Jesus asked Mary "what have I to do with thee?" Mary would instinctively think "you're my son!" But Jesus answered his own question symbolically by turning the water of purification into wine, a symbol of his cleansing blood. Doubtless, this miracle left Mary initially perplexed, but at the cross, Mary would have the greatest possible comfort available to a mother losing the most wonderful son the world has ever seen. Perhaps an inkling of what she was gaining at the loss of her son began to dawn on Mary on that dark day.
At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus gently planted a seed in Mary's mind. Eventually, the seed would grow into Mary's realization that the most important relationship she had with Jesus was not mother to son, but sinner to Savior.
We serve a infinitely tender, loving God, and His relationship with us is far more intimate than any human attachment.
Are you ready for the Marriage Feast?
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