This week: God as evolving. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. God as evolving is quite like the garden at Redeemer. From year to year, there are vegetables that are put in and we expect produce from those plants. That allows us to give thing away. And yet, the garden keeps evolving. We learn that some plants do not do so well and other do. Then again, the weather can throw a fit and make all the predictable stuff become unpredictable. God as evolving will be enough and just right for any day. If you are like me, you have expectations about how the world should move. And yet, it doesn't. Even this work week will change as we are moving through it. We adapt to what comes. That is an evolutionary word right there. Adapt is also a word that frightens people. And yet, God as evolving is the power that moves us to take a new look at what is around us. As times change - life changes and we may not go at the day in the way we once did. The absolutes we often tie around our necks can become the death of us. God as evolving allows us to take off the noose that can kill us and take another approach to how we are to be followers of Jesus and participants within God's Reign. Maybe that noose can become a lasso that we use to draw in that which has always been out there. O God of love and new life, help us to grow into the life of the garden of your Reign. Guide our dreams and our visions and the life that blossoms from them both. Amen. |
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