In the past few years, my political views have been somewhat radically challenged and changed. It's exciting to me to not be alone.
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, empower us to wake up to God’s truth and turn from our falsehood.
Heavenly father, for the many ways we’ve conformed to the pattern of this world instead of to the image of Jesus Christ.
For living like we were on vacation, rather than as soldiers in a battle.
For seeking first the american dream rather than the Kingdom of God.
For consuming more than we need when brothers and sisters around the world go without.
For the ways we have reduced you to a tribal God who is on our side instead of on the side of all humans.
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, empower us to wake up to God’s truth and turn from our falsehood.
Heavenly father, for having more confidence in the ways of Caesar than in the ways of the cross.
For hating our enemies rather than loving and serving them.
For failing to submit every aspect of our daily lives to you.
For being too busy to notice the hurting, the lonely, and the lost in our midst.
For our unwillingness to pursue relationships with people whose appearance and culture is different than our own.
For esteeming some people as more important than others.
For not being outraged by the violence and injustice in the world.
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, empower us to wake up to God’s truth and turn from our falsehood.
And heavenly father, for believing the lies that people have told us about ourselves rather than trusting your word about us, spoken on calvary.
For allowing the promiscuity of our culture to influence our sexual attitudes and behavior.
For judging others as worse sinners than ourselves.
For allowing ourselves to fall into the bondage of strongholds and addictions.
For gossiping and slandering people, rather than blessing them
For praying too little and watching television too much.
For all the lies we’ve told, and all the things we’ve stolen.
For failing to live out the radical call of the Jesus-looking kingdom.
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, forgive us for the ways that we’ve lived in our own stories, gone our own ways, done right what’s in our own eyes, conformed to the culture rather than to your will.
Empower us to turn, Lord, to turn. To see that you are the creator of the world, we are not.
And you know how things work best, we do not.
And so, Lord, we turn and we repent.
I refuse to live in fear.
I know it seems like these things are happening more and more and it's easy to say "the world is going to hell in a hand-basket." Maybe that's true. But this is the world I live in and I'm not going to spend my life worrying, wondering what-if, and being afraid to let my children out of my sight.
I do not believe that tragedies like this are somehow "God's will." Not everything that happens is God's will. That's not the kind of world he created and I am thankful for that. But I do believe that I am a child of God. I believe that as long as I am in his will, I am in a good place. I pray for his safety and protection, I believe he is watching out for me and my family. That doesn't mean I don't think this kind of thing can happen to me. It means if it does, it's okay because God is God. Life or death, war or peace, God is perfect love and perfect love has no fear.
Of course sometimes I feel afraid. If I allowed myself to watch the non-stop news coverage, I would feel terrified right now and watching the coverage would only feed that fear. I want no part of it. I avoid the news in general. American news embraces fear and terror, so I try to find my current events from places that don't do that. It's not easy, so sometimes I just ask my husband what is going on.
What happened at Virginia Tech is a tragedy and it makes me feel sick. I wish things like this didn't happen and I wish I could say they'll never happen again. Instead, I hug Rosemary tight every day and night - not because I am afraid something might happen to her, but because I want to cherish every moment we have together while we're all still here.
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