Going with the Flow

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

God provides peace on Earth. Our task is to expand that peace.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Time and events pass.
A natural disaster. “My” team’s victory. New things learned.
They linger within me, sometimes even to shape me.
They lie behind me.
But they also carry me into the future.
Time and events pass.
A birth. A death. A resurrection
They linger in me, shape me, carry me with your flow.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Not all roads lead to Rome, nor to Jerusalem. God is not confined in either place.”

[Sounds like Him, but He didn’t say it.]

D. Blog: Earthquake in Haiti

Another earthquake, another calamitous loss of life and property, a situation of great need and great suffering. One friend asks what kind of God could allow this to happen. A celebrity preacher of some infamy says the Haitian people brought this tragedy upon themselves because of their “pact with the devil” – practicing voodoo. Isn’t it interesting how we can jump to such wildly different conclusions (wrong conclusions) about divine involvement in natural disasters? Why do we try to establish a supernatural explanation for a natural event?