We Christians sometimes talk about “obedience”. If “obedience” is viewed in the abstract and
as independent of or superior to faith, hope and love rather than as their
manifestation, then “obedience” is a sham, a millstone tied around your neck, a
bringer of death and division.
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“Every prayer is an expression of hope. If you expect nothing from the future, you
cannot pray. Hope is based on the
premise that the other gives only what is good.” (Nouwen)
For what do we hope? Or rather,
to whom do we hope? Is the “God” that we
see one that calls our hearts and minds to that mode of existence that we call “hope”?
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Be aware of “the immense difference that exists between hope
and wishfullness.” (Nouwen)
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The fact that the word “great” appears in “Make America
Great Again” does not itself make self-evident what the term means. Be assured that it doesn’t mean to Donald
Trump what it means to you. To understand
what Donald Trump means by “great” we need only look at his words, actions,
policies, pursuits, and (perhaps most importantly) who or what is sacrificed in
the pursuit of “greatness”.
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To those evangelical and fundamentalist Christians who piously
hold forth that God “intervened” to give the presidency to Donald Trump I simply
ask “Did God’s intervention on behalf of Trump begin before or after the
Republican primary?” If before, you cannot
absolve yourself of the ramifications of your support due to him being “the
lesser of two evils” or “having no other choice.”
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When I look into the face
Of my enemy
I see my brother
I see my brother
(“Brother” – The Brilliance)
This prayer of faith is pious nonsense unless that which binds and
gives life to humanity is eternal; deeper and stronger than those things that
separate. A true vision of our beginning
and our end may yet bring a healing and reconciling word to our present, a word
that renders the construct of “the enemy” as illusory. As vapor.
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