Pilgrim's Progress

Breakthrough

"What's the point of diagnosis without cure?" I shouted at God recently i.e. why show me the difficult stuff in me (or others, the church, the world) without any sense of how to make progress? Seemed almost cruel.

The answer seemed to come partly through John 16:12-13 - there was too much to tell all at once, but the Spirit would accompany them into the truth, a bit at a time, when they were ready.

And so I wait, but I can't help longing and asking for breakthroughs, esp. in the things that I've known about for a while, not just for myself, but for others too.

Is there a big rock in your life you just can't see past right now? What would it look like if you could step back and see it from a different angle?

Journey's End

I can only imagine ... not sure why I'm thinking about heaven in these last two posts. Maybe it's partly because I'm conducting a young child's funeral tomorrow. It's made me rethink a few things.

But it's not just that - I don't think life is ever going to settle into a nice predictable pattern for me. There's too much "pilgrim" in my blood for that. I think there's been a sense of disorientation in the background since I went to train for Anglican ordination 6 years ago, and more so since I heard the call of God to "seek him in the wild places". Living without many certainties, and with continual change does make you think about the big questions more, and with a consciousness of living in the light of eternity. Is this part of what it means for the body of Christ to be a "prophetic and pilgrim" people?

“The prophetic vision of life was radically different from the norm. Theologians use the Latin term sub specie aeternitatis to describe it. The prophets saw human life ‘under the gaze of eternity’, and this perspective led them to a fundamentally different evaluation of human life. What others saw as monumental, the prophets saw as miniscule, and vice versa” (New Dictionary of Biblical Theology)

144,000

I can only imagine ...

Still Carried - Still in Pursuit of REAL

I've heard it said that you can live for 40 days without food, 3 days without water, but you can't live for a moment without hope. Well, living without broadband is worse still :) Just kidding - it's been quite nice to break the routine.

Well I'm here, in the new post ... it's been a whirlwind, and I've scarcely caught up with myself. In faith, I look back to all the signs that led me here, and say I believe something stronger is underneath it all ... that all of this is part of a much bigger picture which is simply too big to grasp.

A reworking of an old image seems appropriate!