Life. Sentence.
October 21, 2008
I was just reading about the spaces that writers make for themselves – often a little ‘creative oasis’ wedged into the corner of a busy family house or apartment… and one of the authors, in describing her space, mentions a writing group called ‘Life Sentence’ which I think is just an awesome name for a bunch of writers!
Anyway. The phrase flipped my lid a little. It beached my whale, as it were. It got me thinking (is what I’m really trying to say)…
Being someone who loves words, who enjoys writing…I have a few phrases which I hang on to, some of which sum-up who I want to be. One of them is a line from a poem I wrote a number of years ago after hearing a bloke called Barry Kissell teaching on the prophetic nature of God and associated ‘ministry’. The ‘she’ in the poem was, of course, a real person, but the line has grown to mean so much more about my life, my hopes, my proximity to God and his will, and the ‘she’ has really become anyone who might be within ear-shot!
I was only standing close enough, that when I listened, she could hear Your voice.
If your life, either right now, or as you want it to be, could be summed up in one sentence, what would that sentence be?
Feel free to add a comment and let us know…
Jesus said your divorce was one of the reasons He came…
October 3, 2008
I was thinking about the theological arguments that surround divorce; the time spent pouring through scripture to find justification for various circumstances surrounding the failure of a marriage. And there is some interesting stuff going on there. But that’s not what I want to talk about now. Before you go too far down that road, you have to start at the beginning. More specifically, you need to start at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry:
In his first public statement since being baptised and anointed for ministry; His first ‘quote’ while speaking in the public eye was this (Luke 4:18):
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised…
He came to heal the broken hearted, deliver those who are captive, bring sight where there is blindness, and make free those that are bruised…
That sounds like a divorce recovery program like no other!
In our desire to define the theology, let’s not forget that our loving Father sent His Son to this world with the desire (and ability) to heal our broken hearts.
