1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Pentecost +23 or Community Practice ²³
November 16, 2014

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

We are good considering how to get an immediate return, but not so good at thinking 6 generations or even 6 seasonal cycles into the future.

For just the briefest of moments consider the ramifications of G*D not coming like a thief in the night (unless, of course, you want to remember Prometheus bringing light out from some "chaos"). In this scenario we are called to live in the light available to us that we not harm the context of coming generations.

A light here would be to attend to the extreme change we have brought to the climate that is background to every other part of life. Our raping of the earth for energy has ended up dis-respecting air and water as well. Rather than blaming this on G*D we might want to acknowledge our own own culpability for the consequences of our own actions.

An excellent way for us to improve our common-future decisions is this model: "Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing."