I can’t help but wonder – if this father is so wonderful, how come neither of his sons knew it? Further – how could the father be so blind as to not know that neither son really knew him? And if he was aware that his sons didn’t know him – how come he didn’t do anything about it? In other words – why is it just accepted that the father was good and the problem was with the sons?
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Is our goal, as Christians, a world in which “reality” consists of two or more independent elements?
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Uh Oh.
Have I put myself in a box here?
I’d say no.
As with most things – there are two ways to look at this as well.
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So – the concept of God calling. It’s one of those church terms. It’s used, with an assumption that everyone knows what it means. Or maybe, that everyone will figure out what it means. Or – maybe – it’s one of those words that is so polarizing that no one wants to really touch what it means,
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Finally, some hope – although look how it comes. Through another marriage to a prostitute and an exile – to cure all the things they have been doing wrong. So, yes – hope. But are they willing to pay the price of “admission” – pun entirely intended. They have to “admit” what they had become in order to be “admitted” back to a relationship with God.
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There is certainly more than enough said in just the verses I’ve quoted above to give us the responsibility to care for God’s creations. We don’t need more. And we don’t need to reduce ourselves either.
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So with this third surgery – I learned from Dewey. In spite of my previous experiences, I decided I was going to “enjoy” this one the way Dewey did.
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This seems like a conversation that would really happen – someone praying that doesn’t normally pray, or maybe even for the first time. So – I had to look up this scenario, to find something on official “church” doctrine for when people pray for either the first time or maybe only rarely. I was disappointed. Even surprised. Very disappointed.
When you’re knee deep in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original task was to drain the swamp. When we’re up to our necks in suffer
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The problem of a little while.
How long is “a little while”?
Relatively speaking, compared to eternity – our lives on this earth are really, really short.
The problem of “a little while” More
