"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart wlil certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-- safe, dark, motionless, airless-- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable." (C.S. Lewis)
I think maybe the reason I don't read the news very often anymore is how much it affects me. Like I read this article today (URL). It really, really bothered me. This was a lady with three kids who just wanted to win a Nintendo Wii for her kids. How can things like that happen in the world? How can a father decapitate his four-year-old child?
I was talking to my mom today after church about war. She says our church says we should be subject to our government. I asked her why the commandment "thou shalt not kill" should be conditionalized when the other nine were pretty absolute.
Sometimes I am just so discouraged with the world. I mean, what happened to the lady who died today wasn't really anyone's fault, but it's still terrible. It makes me feel "scrunchy" inside (to steal an expression from John Updike).
I don't feel well today. I'm having the morning-after problem (morning after a tournament that is). I'm emotionally out of whack.
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"What I realized suddenly was that the true failure would have been if I hadn't given a damn. You can bandage a wound, set a broken bone, but not caring...you can't cure that and you can't recover from it."
"What I realized suddenly was that the true failure would have been if I hadn't given a damn. You can bandage a wound, set a broken bone, but not caring...you can't cure that and you can't recover from it."
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- Lindsay
- Everything in my life is about to change, and I'm absolutely terrified. I breathe one instant at a time.
2 comments:
Our church also teaches that George Washington was inspired of God during the separation from England and the beginning of this country.
That's certainly not "being subject to your government."
The doctrine is that lawlessness is bad. Breaking the social contract is bad. Acting on the social contract to protest or repair a government is absolutely not forbidden. (Sidenote: If you want to be anti-war, go for it, but I remain unconvinced that Jesus is a pacifist.)
The commandment wasn't "Thou shall not Kill" it says "Thou shall not murder" (translations vary, but that is the root word) There is a difference there.
Ecclesiastes 3:16 says:
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up
When the Israelites entered into the promise land, God commanded them to wipe out the people living there. In the battle of Gibeon, Joshua prayed to God to let the sun stand still so he could win the battle and God held the sun fast.
Lastly, here is a quote about risk that I keep close to my heart:
The person who risks nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. To laugh is to risk being a fool. To reach out to others is to risk getting involved. To love is to risk not being loved in return. The person who risks nothing may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot know, feel, change, grow, live or love.
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