Not so sure about that…
I sit on the porch, in my chair that is for camping.
The blog I come across (by no one I actually know… at least very well…) depresses me. And although sometimes I depress myself, I can’t help but identify these sentiments as a true let down. The writer writes from a Christian perspective; and the writer complains that the world is messed up.
And I feel my heart break a little when I ration these thoughts with my deep seeded conviction that God is in this world, deeply loves this world and is here with us, with it, within, without, through and through, every moment, everyday. We are his beloved and by “we” I mean humanity. He cannot separate himself from us and we were made to find him irresistable. To say that this world is “bad” is a shallow assessment. God created us and therefore loves us– no amount of modern new-ageism, sexualized media, materialism, greed, war, violence and technological dependency can separate us from the love of God. He redeems, not just individually as we’ve heard it preached many times before, but collectively. Despite popular (Christian) belief, we ARE of this world. We are made up of the very dust and bones as our fellow man, as our atheist neighbor, as the pedifile down the street. We need to stop being afraid of devience and start trusting the Holy Spirit– healer and reconciler of all things. The author of the future, he sees us alongside a vision of our intended state, and knows that us getting there is not only possible, but destiny.
I pray that one day I’d see the world for it’s destiny, like He does.
