| We continues with "God in Pathos" again from Walter Brueggemann's book "An Unsettling God." ....Kazo Kitamori has poignantly written on God's pain..... Kitamori notes how discerningly both Luther and Calvin, without any sentimentality, were able to take notice of God's pain. the articulation of that pain, moreover, required the poetic imagination of ancient Israel to speak in terms of bodily upset and consternation, resisting any attempt to permit this God to float off as en ephemeral spirit. The God of dialogic engagement is fully exposed to the realities of life in the world that we might most readily term "creaturely," except that those realities are, on the lips of the poets, the realities of the creator as well. There are so many classic stories of this closeness of God - close to our lives - close to our joys - close to the darkest and most painful days we encounter. Yes it is the poet among us that brings those to light and helps us see that God is present precisely because that is the way this God is among us. "God With Us" may be a way we refer to Jesus in the season of Advent, but this God of our has never been not with us. In the midst of all this, our God knows the pain and the sorrow and the gladness that we share. We are told that from the saints who gave and give word to how in some way they were able to experience their God with them and sustaining them - no magic, just with them through all things. Thank God for the poets who hear and see God among us and make sure we hear it and see it also - even when we resist. Connection: Look at those who have been put out by society and even the church and listen to what has sustained them. They know the God who sit with them and never abandons them when the world is so quick to do that in times of pain. This is that real, down-to-earth One whose love never ends. O God, whose heart is close to the people, continue to dance closely with us in that through all the messes of life that are - so very, very real. Amen. |
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