Happy Tuesday! Hope you'll join us tonight for our first Soup-Salad-Supper conversation at 6:30pm as we discuss this week's word, "Salvation." Until then, reflect on and post your responses to this description of salvation from Frederich Buechner's Beyond Words:
Who knows how the awareness of God's love first hits people.
We all have our own tales to tell, including those of us who wouldn't believe
in God if you paid us. Some moment happens in your life that you say yes to
right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just
to have happen. Laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks.
Waking up to the first snow. Being in bed with somebody you love.
Whether you thank God for such a moment or thank your lucky
stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn
your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose
you the ball game. If you throw your arms around such a moment and bless it, it
may save your soul.
How about the person you know who as far as you can possibly
tell has never had such a moment—one of those soreheads and slobs of the world,
the ones the world has hopelessly crippled? Maybe for that person the moment
that has to happen is you.
It is a process, not an event.
1 comment:
Oh Glory that is scary. If the best moment in some person's life is going to be me and something I bring to that life, I really need to try to interact with those I meet in a new way. Nancy
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