"Problems, crazy, wrong, do not put up with this. How can we even think this? Abolish. Radical change. Violence. Repeat histories, characteristically. "
And what is the effect of our long-term goodness and logically trying for solutions?
Are you seeing some 'grumpiness'?
Maybe we all feel our journey has a narrow road with few detours of Joy?
And then the belief - this is not affecting this person or that group.
And is this problem applicable to all?
Yes. ALL.
Just when it looked safe to go back to life...
Coming to you!
The trouble is we think this has moved into a forever zone. And feel sure we would want this to end.
Colossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in Him
all
things hold together.
God fully understands the layers.
Life, safety, assurance, comfort, love, family, friends, financial and forever. And routine business, occasional business and plain rudeness. Move you over to have my comfort. You don't count - much. What I miss in life - you don't. We can find - any - problem we want to search for, even that dust bunny.
As I walk to do an errand, job or chore, the thought comes back to me over and over of the Academy Award-winning movie, "Mrs. Miniver."
"Mrs. Miniver" is an important film, the Best Picture Oscar in 1942. Greer Garson (Oscar-winning) is excellent as the titled character. The movie deals with civilians at ease and in comfort, learning, coping and overcoming while at war. Layers of fighting. And Endurance. It takes place in war-stricken England and was made right when all of Europe was in chaos. All in all, "Mrs. Miniver" is a great film that is one of the best films produced in the 1940s. 5 stars.
Immediately as the Pandemic occurred, we knew we were so fortunate to sit on our couches and ruminate instead of dying in a trench.
A trench or well-worn path are a narrow spaces. A narrow path.
We looked at World War I and the Spanish Flu, deciding what we'd see. We looked at SARS. And this isn't all better quite yet.
Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed
We believe. We believe the virus will end. We believe we will recover - eventually - in work and security. Do we believe we are unchanged? Do we disbelieve we can be better people? Do we feel our goodness will be so weary nothing good will happen?
Luke 16:31
Then Abraham said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'"
"Dynamis" Power, instead, John's Gospel Truth uses "dynatia" powerless.
John 4:48
Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
Be the "Ye." If you need to see a sign God is working, be the "Ye."
Matthew 13
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed,
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
and turn, and I would heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13
one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. 22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
John 20:29
Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
We have to believe God gives our lives God's Glory. What we choose to do makes our Light a Legacy. We contribute to those we Love or we do not.
Birmingham, Alabama didn't recover for a long time from the Civil Rights Fight. In 1973, Birmingham was called 'Bombingham'. And one man listened in Dallas, Texas to Billy Graham say The Light of Jesus Christ shows up 2,000 years later. And his eyes could see and his ears could hear. His decision was to visit Woodlawn High School and Birmingham changed. Alabama stood witness. The Light of Christ started in a group of athletes. Then the High School. Then State. Then University. Then Politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG06qeoVXNs
Woodlawn
The Light of Jesus Christ.
We bring His Love into our Lives in our words, deeds and actions of Faith.
Bloom in the Narrow Paths
best we can
Bloom
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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