tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12885898.post1733813321233690981..comments2023-07-07T10:05:07.005-05:00Comments on Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Dialogue: First Sunday of Advent - C4Wesley Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667397352740469966noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12885898.post-12456021094676749562006-12-01T20:25:00.000-06:002006-12-01T20:25:00.000-06:00It is with the possibilities of energetic renewal ...<i>It is with the possibilities of energetic renewal that offers again strength to out-wait the dissipation and despair trap of being too fearful to stand and look and choose. The image we attend to makes all the difference.</i><br /><br /><b>Dissipation and despair are like someone laying in the street bleeding. Waiting is no good. None.</b><br /><br /><i>Waiting is appropriate for something growing, a seed planted, a hope born in imagination. Then nurturing is the order of the day, and patient waiting/watching/attending.</i><br /><br /><b>Standing fearful, looking and choosing, is already making a choice: fear. The choice is fear. Not a good choice, I think.</b><br /><br /><i>The cloud image shifts from harvest judgment</i><br /><br /><b>Is it really judgement? Or common sense? Who wants to bake bread with chaff? Chaff is irrelevant. The church is becoming chaff.</b><br /><br /><i>to profligate abundance twice to a hundred times more than we began with.</i><br /><br /><b>You mean there is more than enough for everyone to be "wealthy" beyond their wildest dreams? This is good.</b><br /><br /><i>What are the words of life if not Justice and Righteousness,</i><br /><br /><b>Who decides what is just? What is righteous? I can't. But no one can do it for me either.</b><br /><br /><i>Steadfast Love and Faithfulness,</i><br /><br /><b>What happens if we take the word "steadfast" out of there? And love of what? Faithfulness to what? Lots of people are faithful to that which deserves no fidelity.</b><br /><br /><i>Blamelessness and Holiness,</i><br /><br /><b>Persons with clinical Borderline Personality Disorder feel, all the way through, blameless. So do sociopaths. So to innocent children. There's more to it than this. I don't always know what that is, but there's more to it.</b><br /><br /><i>Power and Glory,</i><br /><br /><b>Save me. Unless you are referring to the power and glory of the early December snowstorm that blew in this morning, followed by a clear blue sky that rendered the view out my patio door completely stunningly gratitude-inspiring.</b><br /><br /><i>Peace and Security,</i><br /><br /><b>That is my prayer. Can these two co-exist?</b><br /><br /><i>Fig Leaf and Summer.</i><br /><br /><b>I'd prefer to dance totally naked beneath warm summer skies, no fig leaf, thank you. Still working on entrenched cultural inhibitions, but given the right combination of privacy and warmth...</b><br /><br /><b>Tom</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com