There are things you can't control.
The love you have. The anger you feel. Sometimes they spill out.
You love the wrong people. You get angry at the wrong people. You speak the truth to both.
The Reign of God is among you.
You can't control the need to say so.
Love the wrong people and give them hope.
Make the wrong people angry and they're confronted with how paltry their power really is.
You can only tell them the truth.
You can't control what they do with it.
This isn't how you would like things to go.
You'd just as soon kept on traveling, preaching, touching, healing.
You can't control everything.
Having given us hope, fulfull our every wish.
Having made us angry, you forced our hand.
You can't control everything.
Neither would you be controlled.
You were a problem to be solved.
You had to be taken care of, taken out.
For good.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
But she answered him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs."
Featured Post
Faraway -- a book response
Some years ago, a friend who had spent many years being sexually molested by a family member, carefully and haltingly confided in me that pa...
Presuppositions . . .
Some things to note about this blog.
It is a religious blog, the religion being Christianity.
I come with the understanding that the point of the Gospel is bringing in the Reign of God. This has a personally saving dimension, but, as I recently heard a preacher say, Christianity isn't about getting saved, it's about saving. That will mean many different things. There may be arguments.
Comments, disagreements, agreements, invitations to parties---all welcome. Not so welcome: rude behavior, name calling, general acts of hate (especially those that are being passed off as "love"). I appreciate transparency in remarks. My real name is up there, be brave enough to put yours up there, too. I'm starting this out without moderation. If we all play well together, perhaps it can remain without moderation. I generally don't like rules (I'm more gospel than law---but don't tell anyone---I'm Lutheran, I'm supposed to embrace law AND gospel) so please don't make me enforce any.
There are likely to be as many, maybe more quotes from the Desert Fathers and Mothers as from the Bible. We each have slightly varying canons that way.
Just to explain the title of this blog, it's a play on my family name. If you don't get it, type in "orts" at dictionary.com.
Let us show the world how we love one another.
It is a religious blog, the religion being Christianity.
I come with the understanding that the point of the Gospel is bringing in the Reign of God. This has a personally saving dimension, but, as I recently heard a preacher say, Christianity isn't about getting saved, it's about saving. That will mean many different things. There may be arguments.
Comments, disagreements, agreements, invitations to parties---all welcome. Not so welcome: rude behavior, name calling, general acts of hate (especially those that are being passed off as "love"). I appreciate transparency in remarks. My real name is up there, be brave enough to put yours up there, too. I'm starting this out without moderation. If we all play well together, perhaps it can remain without moderation. I generally don't like rules (I'm more gospel than law---but don't tell anyone---I'm Lutheran, I'm supposed to embrace law AND gospel) so please don't make me enforce any.
There are likely to be as many, maybe more quotes from the Desert Fathers and Mothers as from the Bible. We each have slightly varying canons that way.
Just to explain the title of this blog, it's a play on my family name. If you don't get it, type in "orts" at dictionary.com.
Let us show the world how we love one another.
Followers
Blog Archive
About Me
- Neil Ellis Orts
- NEW: My novella, CARY AND JOHN is published and available for purchase at parsonsporch.com or Amazon.com. Arts, religion, where those intersect, and where they don't . . . a freelance writer with credits in OutSmart Magazine, Dance Studio Life, Dance Source Houston, The Christian Century, Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Living Lutheran . . . impractically educated, with a BFA in theater (Texas State University), an M.Div, (Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest), and an MA in interdisciplinary arts (Columbia College Chicago) . . . visit my other blogs, listed in my full profile . . . available for all kinds of things, most of which fall under standard legal, ethical, and moral guidelines.
No comments:
Post a Comment