This week: God as strange visions. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . I am still caught up in the visions of the Prophet that we read for lessons during Advent. They are full of the unbelievable - the out of place - the shocking. God as strange visions will rattle us. We expect this - we get that and more. We expect the day to be well within our control but God as strange visions leads us off course and often befuddles us so that we are not sure how we will proceed. I find forgiveness to be like this. I think forgiveness hands us strange visions that are able to make all things new. God as strange visions is the power of forgiveness that allows all things to operate out of a very different base. We are alive within a vision that confounds the world and also us. Forgiveness sets out a vision of healing and comfort and courage and mercy that is often forgotten - or it is a vision that is just too uncomfortable for us to jump in and live. God as strange visions opens up life that is much more full and expansive than we ever thought life could be - and yet, it is. O God of love and new life, expand us and invited beyond ourselves. Amen. |
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