I've been reading "The Irresistible Revolution" by Shane Claiborne and there is one story he tells that keeps popping up in my head. It goes like this:
I remember hearing an old comic strip back in the days of St. Ed's. Two guys are talking to each other, and one of them says he has a question for God. He wants to ask why God allows all of this poverty and war and suffering to exist in the world and his friend says. " Well, why don't you ask?" The fellow shakes his head and says he is scared. When his friend asks why he mutters. "I'm scared God will ask me the same question." Over and over, when I ask God why all these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, "You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet." (page 65)
Wow, what a concept. What if we all internalized that? How would this world be different? Here's another song it reminds me of.
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update? I miss hearing your reflections!
So true. What a great perception.. If we all did our part accordingly to his plan; and followed our destiny) these things might not happen so abundintly.
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