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Yesterday at our regular
I have to tell you: excepting me, these are the most fervent prayer warriors in our church. These are the ones at the crack of dawn Friday and Saturday prayer meetings; these are the ones who show up when widows and divorcees need strong backs to carry their sofas to a new apartment; these are the ones who took it seriously at baptisms when the congregation in unison recited our oath to watch out for each other’s children.
There is not their equal at our church. And yet, they — we — were all struggling not to go under for the third time.
At the end of the meeting, someone said aloud, “Everybody needs a marshwiggle.” And we smiled, remembering good old Puddleglum in The Silver Chair, who held out longer than his three companions against the green powder that the white witch had poured onto the hearth, releasing a deadly drowsiness into the air that all were succumbing to. When Puddleglum perceived what was happening, he roused himself and ran to the fireplace and stomped out the fire. Soon, all shook themselves back to sanity and faith in Aslan and Narnia.
I hope you have marshwiggles in your life too.
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Off-key
Ahh…i remember this. My husband and I have another analogy for our sinful selves in this sinful culture: chloroform. It was like a light bulb turned on, it “fit.”
You have inspired me today. Yourself and company would be a fun crowd to hang with. :o)
One by one, we were for some reason all praying along the same lines — that God would help us by removing our indifferent and calcified hearts and giving us love and faith and zeal for his kingdom.
It’s hard to go on when, after decades of “walking with Jesus”, you realize that you can no longer deny that prayer is a worse than useless farce and that God’s “promises” are all sick, twisted jokes.
Night Train,
It’s fine to contribute to the politically-themed threads and such, or Whirled Views, or whatever with your venom.
But why do you feel the need to come to a thread like this, that many of us benefit from, to simply drop a bomb and run away? You make no argument, you stand no chance of swaying anyone to your side, and you make me less and less likely to read your opinions on the other threads, where debate is more appropriate.
I don’t think, Night Train, based on your response, that you understood the meaning of the sentence you quoted at all, so perhaps Cameron is right — stick to politics.
What your response to the quote says to me is that something has gone wrong for you somewhere. You sound sad and defeated. Or is it simply that you didn’t get what you prayed for and you’re still not over it?
NT,
I think that your suffering is a result of man-made religion and not God. You were right, you should have gotten a real education and not
wasted your time like you did in your early years. I did the very same thing.
Andree,
“These are the ones at the crack of dawn Friday and Saturday prayer meetings; these are the ones who show up when widows and divorcees need strong backs to carry their sofas to a new apartment; these are the ones who took it seriously at baptisms when the congregation in unison recited our oath to watch out for each other’s children.”
thanks for this,
Did they who took it seriously at the baptisms take it seriously AFTER the baptisms, and how so stories would be most enlightening and helpful, stories about real godliness in the lives of real people.
Night Train - I am sorry to see that you badly misunderstand God’s promises, and that it caused you such distress.
Fellow readers,
By acknowledging and responding to Night Train’s disingenuous, caustic words as we have, I think we give him just what he wants - to interrupt our fellowship with the encouraging and reflective words from Andree and the work the Holy Spirit is doing with them in our lives. I believe totally ignoring these rogue attackers on spiritual blogs will be less likely to encourage them to keep returning to streak the blog and toss “poison in the punchbowl” again and again.
Thank you, Andree, for writing so beautifully on behalf of the Kingdom of God. Your words so often hit the exact target that god intended for them.
Norm
Ah thanks Norm. Posts Nos. 4,5 and 6 were uncomfortably close to being compassionate and understanding.
Glad you got it back on track.