Saturday, August 20, 2011

Designed by mercy

Becoming Orthodox disqualifies you as an Evangelical teaching authority, and I suppose the reverse would also be true: Becoming Evangelical disqualifies you as an Orthodox teaching authority.

It all confuses me, and I am not sure what planet I am on, sometimes. I wish I could express what I know and what I feel, but I cannot.
If I open my mouth to almost anyone, I find they are aiming a stone at me.

There is no conversion, except to Christ, who is Life, the only Life worth living, eternal, certain Life. I pray for you, brother, whenever I think of you, and I thank God for you, and ask Him only to guard your life. If you can just stay alive, His will provides everything else.

Sorrow, sorrow but not unhappy, quiet, unworried sorrow, sorrow that waits, sorrow that alone can endure transformation. All else is too weak. Sorrow only is strong enough to endure everything and, enduring all, is transformation.


One day by one day by one day, a cube of time, designed by mercy to be small, because small is safe. Closeness to Him holds us, keeps us safe. Closeness covers us, until the storm passes by.

4 comments:

Mother Effingby said...

Keep saying it, brother.

yudikris said...

There is a math beauty in it ;)

Sasha said...

No, brother, not everyone holds a stone for you. It's just that agreement is usually silent.

Ρωμανός ~ Romanós said...

Yes, Sasha, I know what you say is true. I was also speaking in the person of many Christians I know, whose innocence and faith are often targeted and ridiculed by other Christians.

Thanks for commenting.