When We Wallow In Guilt, Remorse, And

Reality, Truth, And Jesus Christ Are Incredibly Open-ended

Craving Clarity, We Attempt To Eliminate The Risk Of Trusting God. Fear Of The Unknown Path Stretching Ahead Of Us Destroys Childlike Trust In The Father's Active Goodness And Unrestricted Love.

Let Us Be Bold Enough To Ask Ourselves As Christians Whether The Church Of The Lord Jesus In The United States Has Anything To Say To Our Nation And Its Ideologies Of Materialism, Possessiveness, And The Worship Of Financial Security. Are We Courageous Enough To Be A Sign Of Contradiction To Consumerism Through Our Living Faith In Jesus Christ? Are We Committed Enough To His Gospel To Become A Countercurrent To The Drift?

What Makes A Genius? The Ability To See. To See What? The Butterfly In A Caterpillar, The Eagle In An Egg, The Saint In A Selfish Person, Life In Death, Unity In Separation, God In The Human And Human In God And Suffering As The Form In Which The Incomprehensibility Of God Himself Appears.

To Ignore, Repress, Or Dismiss Our Feelings Is To Fail To Listen To The Stirrings Of The Spirit Within Our Emotional Life. Jesus Listened. In John's Gospel We Are Told That Jesus Was Moved With The Deepest Emotions (11:33)... The Gospel Portrait Of The Beloved Child Of Abba Is That Of A Man Exquisitely Attuned To His Emotions And Uninhibited In Expressing Them. The Son Of Man Did Not Scorn Of Reject Feelings As Fickle And Unreliable. They Were Sensitive Antennae To Which He Listened Carefully And Through Which He Perceived The Will Of His Father For Congruent Speech And Action.