Okay I am not even going to try to guess at the synchronicity of this. After I wrote the first post, I moved on to check my mail and found this. Draw your own conclusions. But I will say – the after does not have to have anything to do with the now. A young friend of mine has reminded me of this from time to time, that though my glimpse into what is “not” here, is important, it also important to remember that while we are here, what we do, and don’t, matters. I will no longer deny her the truth of that statement. So, with love from Steve Goodier:<\/p>\n
FAITH AT WORK<\/p>\n
It’s one thing to goof. But it’s another thing to do it in front of a
\nstadium full of people! In their book Oops (The Rutledge Press, 1981),
\nauthors Richard Smith and Edward Decter tell of such slip-ups. One
\noccurred during a soccer match between two Brazilian teams. (To
\nprotect the player involved, I won’t name the teams.) The first goal
\nwas scored within three seconds after kickoff. What made the score
\nparticularly hard for the team’s fans to take was the fact that it was
\nmade while their goalie was still on one knee with head bowed in
\nprayer.<\/p>\n
There is certainly a time for prayer, but this poor man learned the
\nhard way that there is also a time for action. In fact, both are
\nnecessary in a well-lived life. As Gandhi once said, “I have so much
\nto accomplish today, I will have to meditate two hours instead of
\none.”<\/p>\n
Often, however, the best spirituality begins with the prayer of the
\nheart, and then moves to that prayer which is lived throughout the
\nrest of the day.<\/p>\n
Several years ago a bomb was detonated outside the huge oak doors of a Dr. Ken Bailey, a Presbyterian missionary scholar and friend of the The next day, Bailey again called on his friend. The maid confided in Dr. Bailey has since remarked, “I did not teach any theology that The truth is…faith is never so beautiful as when it has its working And that is the truth. Faith is wonderful, it is something to hold on to, it can prove to us, through our own individual experiences that there is a truth out “there” larger than ourselves, but I am not sure that here, wearing these human skins, it ever gets much richer than this story. much love, :^) gene<\/p>\n If today brings even one choice your way Okay I am not even going to try to guess at the synchronicity of this. After I wrote the first post, I moved on to check my mail and found this. Draw your own conclusions. But I will say – the after does not have to have anything to do with the now. A young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGreek Catholic church in Jerusalem<\/span>. The heavy doors were blown inward
\nso that they careened up to the front of the sanctuary and destroyed
\nthe chancel area. Windows were blown out, pews were destroyed, and the
\nbalcony collapsed.<\/p>\n
\npriest of the Greek Church, stopped by to assess the damage. It took
\nlittle time to determine that the priest was in shock and unable to
\nmake necessary decisions. So Dr. Bailey took it upon himself to ask
\nseminary administrators at the school where he taught to close
\nclasses, and he invited students to join him in helping the priest.
\nThey cleaned the church and boarded the windows to prevent looting.<\/p>\n
\nhim that the priest did not cry at the bomb’s destruction. However,
\nshe added, “He did cry when you and your friends helped clean up the
\nmess it made.”<\/p>\n
\nafternoon – or did I?” If theology is about love in action, he held
\none of his best classes that day.<\/p>\n
\nclothes on.<\/p>\n
\nchoose to be a bringer of the light :^) gene<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"