Kate Bowler is a wonderful writer. A recent column had these needed words:
“We are not people who put our heads in the sand.or live with something that cannot be changed…but you show courage in continuing to care when cynicism would be easier”.
C.S. Lewis wrote we must refuse both hysteria and numbness.
The task of faith in frightening times is to not to escape the ache, but to find our own way of living with it.
To keep making dinner.
To keep loving people fiercely.
To keep telling the truth about what hurts.without surrendering our capacity for joy.
The world may be on fire—but this, too, is where God meets us. Awake now. Paying attention. Still choosing what is human.
February 18 marks the beginning of Lent. Let us ask God to show us the world as it is.
Brave Journey, Bill
