June 19, 2013
One of our writing prompts today at our clergy writing group was from this “Late Fragment” by Raymond Carver:
And did you get what
you wanted from tis life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
Which led me to this:
What do I want from life? I think I may, at this point, have a clue. (more…)
June 16, 2013
You don’t always get … what you expect.
That’s true so often (in my experience) in our relationship with God.
But this morning I’m really only thinking about the service I attended at Trinity Cathedral (in Sacramento). (more…)
June 9, 2013
When I woke up yesterday, I was thinking about your FaceBook posting asking prayers for folks in the Oklahoma City area. Then I found myself thinking about the recent death of my father-in-law. Basically, I was thinking about the question “why is there suffering or evil in the world?”
I mean, this wouldn’t be a question at all. Except we believe that God made the world we live in. We believe that God is good. We believe that God loves and cares for us.
If all this is true, then why do bad things happen? Why do people suffer? Why do people die?
Mind you, at least in my mind, a good deal of this can be put down to a combination of human free will and human perversity. But even that is part of God’s creation. Why would our God make that part of creation? And certainly the facts of disease and natural disaster and death are part of God’s creation too – even if we sometimes contribute to all of the above. Why did God make the world that way?
I don’t really have answers.
But I do have thoughts. There are some things I think are true. (more…)
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