Turn it all off. Turn off the noise, the tv, the voices that invade our minds. How is anyone expected to stay sane with all this noise?
Christ lived in a time so foreign to our own. We have great challenges that Christians have never faced before. The distractions and ever present media. It is almost impossible to navigate and move forward. I can turn off the noise, but if no one else does how does that help?
I am looking down the barrel of some pretty ugly days. People have allowed the voices to fill them with fear and anger. I watch as our society is covered by a cloak of virtue but the fruit is hate and distrust.
I have no confidence in mankind today. NONE.
We have to find a path back to God. We have to learn to love others, even if they are wrong, even if they do us harm, even if they wield power, even if they are the underdog, even if they protest what we value. All of us! Not one of us is free of sin. We all hang in the balance.
I honestly don’t even have the words to pray any more. I just pray that God will know and do what is best. I have no ideas, no thoughts.
I am completely empty and I have to put myself fully in his hands.
Do I need to have faith in humanity to be a Christian? Can I be cynical and dejected and still follow him? Is there a different way?
What is forgiveness? What does it look like?
Maybe it looks like a man beaten, bleeding, dying on a cross asking the God of Heaven to forgive the people who put him there. That is a high bar.
Luke 23: 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what
they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
Roberta Writes 