We had a day in the snow yeaterday Jo, Jon, Chris & Emma built and then demolished a snowman with some friends, more sophisticated now they videoed the whole thing; I wonder were they trying to capture a bit of something that says my childhood was made of days like this? As young adults we wathc them all struggling to both grow up and remain childlike at the same time...
Tim and I walked ...after throwing a few snowballs at the children who reciprocated! It was foggy and as we walked everything disapeared except for the path ahead of us, we couldn't see where we'd come from or where we were going to...bit like life I guess! Though we always have a take on where we have come from though I'm not always convinced we see behind us with real clarity!
I've been reading Brian Mclarens "Last word and the word after that."... it looks at the question of hell and how we Christians have preached Hell fire and brimstone to scare people into behaving, yet how Jesus went to those excluded on the grounds of morals and behaviour and drew them close eating with them and befriending them
We Christians use the whole doctrine of hell exactly as the Pharisees did! We're playing on the wrong side!Our concept of righteousness is like theirs-it's like we've missed Jesus whole point!-Brian McLaren
Wow, this really resonates in my soul, I love Jesus but sometimes we seem to be so harsh and hard in what we preach in the church...what if we have truly missed the point.