Comments on: What can you do? http://loveandblunder.com/2007/01/20/what-can-you-do/ "To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair." - Walker Percy, The Moviegoer Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:05:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Andy http://loveandblunder.com/2007/01/20/what-can-you-do/#comment-253 Andy Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:04:48 +0000 http://loveandblunder.com/2007/01/20/what-can-you-do/#comment-253 I think what's jarring to me about your "state of the cosmos" report is the fact that most of us bop along from day to day not really having much of a longing for re-creation in Christ at his second advent, nor any sense of how comprehensive and radical its effects will (need to) be. The "radical" effects of sin, for most of us, I suspect, are always occurring "over there" somewhere. It's often hard to connect MY objective condition with those things happening "over there" or with "that other family". I wonder if we would mourn with those who mourn more appropriately if we had a deeper sense of our fraternity in the guilt and pervasiveness and comprehensiveness of sin. I also am struck by your post and its content at the radical and utterly gratuitous mercy shed toward me in that my son and wife are, for the time being, alive and healthy. And, lastly, this discussion makes me think back to an old and pretty morbid post of Rob's, when he began to reflect on the bittersweet savour of moments spent with Olivia. Sweet because of the marvel of it all; bitter because one of the two of them are likely to die before the other, and leave the other with a collection of inflamed tear ducts. Maranatha. Andy I think what’s jarring to me about your “state of the cosmos” report is the fact that most of us bop along from day to day not really having much of a longing for re-creation in Christ at his second advent, nor any sense of how comprehensive and radical its effects will (need to) be. The “radical” effects of sin, for most of us, I suspect, are always occurring “over there” somewhere. It’s often hard to connect MY objective condition with those things happening “over there” or with “that other family”. I wonder if we would mourn with those who mourn more appropriately if we had a deeper sense of our fraternity in the guilt and pervasiveness and comprehensiveness of sin.

I also am struck by your post and its content at the radical and utterly gratuitous mercy shed toward me in that my son and wife are, for the time being, alive and healthy.

And, lastly, this discussion makes me think back to an old and pretty morbid post of Rob’s, when he began to reflect on the bittersweet savour of moments spent with Olivia. Sweet because of the marvel of it all; bitter because one of the two of them are likely to die before the other, and leave the other with a collection of inflamed tear ducts.

Maranatha.

Andy

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