The verses set for today’s reading and meditation (John 3:1-15), are very well known to the followers of Jesus – from the Gospel of John, Chapter 3, verses 1 to 21, New Living Translation – I’ve added additional verses, up to and including verse 21, for obvious reasons):
“There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader [...]
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I’ll repeat here the main element of today’s study – mainly, because I’ve also been impressed by what Joni has written.
Selwyn writes: “Whenever I have listened to Joni Eareckson Tada tell her story, I hear nothing that comes anywhere close to tragedy, comedy or irony. There is something inspiring, something of God, about her story. [...]
Selwyn asks us, all a question – and, it’s an appropriate question to ask as we near the end of this issue.
“Are you aware at the moment of something going on in your life that is bigger than your personal agenda – that you are being caught up in a bigger story?”
Now and then, we [...]
Selwyn’s study is interesting but I find it hard to comment because I like both chess and poetry – so what does that make me?
I liked the following: “When faced with the mystery of God’s story in our lives we have two choices: either we respond by trying to figure out God’s ways and seek [...]
I liked the bit that Selwyn wrote about poetry: “Poetry is the product of passion. It has something volcanic about it, surging up in the poet’s soul like molten lava and spilling over in strangely moving language.”
If I could use the above words in a slightly different way: “Our love for God should be a product [...]
Selwyn moves onto another ‘thing we must do as participants in God’s big story is to enter into mystery and celebrate it’.
He starts today’s study with: “What do I mean when I say we must enter into mystery? Let me put it like this: most of us, when we are faced with mystery, instead of [...]
‘In my own voice’
Selwyn has written an excellent summary to this issue: “Trust that God has given you a role that highlights not only your special talents and individuality but, more importantly, the way in which divine grace is at work in your life.
Just to be part of God’s great epic, to be caught up in the narrative [...]
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