I have no sermon today
Jul. 3rd, 2011 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkI have no sermon today. There were thoughts I thought about writing, things that had to do with me, and my inner world and my experience of God, but they're not important thoughts. I'll share them later, perhaps. There were thoughts from what I heard at church today, but they were not thoughts that touched me very deeply. I'll share them later too, perhaps.
Something else more important, that touched me more deeply, came along. I share that instead.
The Obliterated Place.
When I hear people ask "How can a loving God let us suffer?" I have answers, but I've never been able to frame the words quite right. It sounds trite and useless to say "we need to suffer" when you say it in the face of some of the terrible, horrible, unspeakable things that people have suffered. Sugar says it in a way I never could. I feel almost ashamed that I wrote her the other day with some petty trouble of mine that felt like it needed her advice. It probably didn't. But I suppose it's that way with God too. Just because you haven't suffered "as much" doesn't make your troubles any less real.
But I shall shut up now and let you go read some better words than mine. Read, ponder, cry a little, and hopefully come away with more than you had when you began.
Something else more important, that touched me more deeply, came along. I share that instead.
The Obliterated Place.
When I hear people ask "How can a loving God let us suffer?" I have answers, but I've never been able to frame the words quite right. It sounds trite and useless to say "we need to suffer" when you say it in the face of some of the terrible, horrible, unspeakable things that people have suffered. Sugar says it in a way I never could. I feel almost ashamed that I wrote her the other day with some petty trouble of mine that felt like it needed her advice. It probably didn't. But I suppose it's that way with God too. Just because you haven't suffered "as much" doesn't make your troubles any less real.
But I shall shut up now and let you go read some better words than mine. Read, ponder, cry a little, and hopefully come away with more than you had when you began.