From William C. Placher’s “Narratives of a Vulnerable God”
If God will be with us in our suffering, and God’s love sustains us, however, then we can dare to love and live the risks entailed in the realm between heaven and hell where we dwell and to which God freely came. The kinds of risk that the security of knowing god’s love permits, therefore, are not just a kind of bonus but part of what it means to be fully human, just as the capacity for vulnerable love without limit is part of what it means to be God.
I find this to be a profound way of talking about being fully human. We are on a daring adventure and we are able to enter that adventure of love because we can always be assured that God’s love for us will never be taken from us…it will be our rock and foundation even as we must endure the realities that come to us as loving people in or warring world.
Connection: Hey, if this day feels as though it is some place between heaven and hell remember that it is just the place to begin loving our neighbor and our enemy. For that is what makes us truly God’s humanity – beloved.
By your love your sustain us, O God. And within the freedom of our lives you walk with us through the ways of your love that may be of risk to us as we go along your way. Always send your Spirit to hold us up and move us more deeply into your loving presence. Amen.
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