DIVINE OTHERNESS

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A few years ago someone wrote, “Maybe we’re going through a stage. Maybe we’ve gone through the stages of loving God, and then reason, and then science, and perhaps now we love only ourselves.”

Everyone wants to be taken care of, but not as man want to care.

One day a man over eighty was observed planting a small peach tree. Explaining why to his neighbor he said, “I know I may not be alive when these trees bear fruit, and perhaps the people who eat these peaches will never know who I was. But they will know that someone was thinking of them and cared enough to plant the trees.”

And so the task set before us is crystal clear. As Christians to make Christian communities! To make all around us because of us places where when people come they can feel the practiced love that is a way of life. Where they do not feel readied rebuke. Where people feel loved not for what they are but for who God is.

That is the Christian message, isn’t it? The practice of love in a totally different way for a totally different reason than the world expects us to. That you may be a liar, a cheat, an egomaniac with a chip on your shoulder, even a moral bum and still be an object of Christian concern.

That in too many places, people match hurt for hurt, but in a Christian place those with Christian hearts, if you hurt me, the more I pray for you. And if I hurt you, you pray for me. That is the Christian message now isn’t it.

Unbelievers give love for love, but Christians give love for a reason the pagan can never understand – call it divine otherness.

SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
SOME RECENT TITLES

HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)

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