first of all, i am on my lunch break at home and not wanting to go back to these dreadful 4th graders who have no control at all. it is unbelievable.
second of all, a 3rd grader's name was alondra and she told me the best story i have heard in probably forever. she wanted to tell me how she got her name, she said that her mom once heard a bird say it maybe two or three times, and she thought to herself....i think that i shall name my daughter that! how incredible of a story is that. and the story is just as beautiful as this girl. i see God in this girl.
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namaste = i see god in you.
it's a greeting in several eastern cultures that recognizes a common divinity, a shared presence of god, in each person you interact with.
so - namaste to alondra!
thanks jessica!
maybe the trick is to see God in the things we hate and despise?
dicey indeed.
honestly, i really don't know. it's something i push out of my mind because it's hard for me to think about. bad form, i know.
all i know is that god is certainly about being just. i think we forget that justice isn't simply punishment, but it's giving dignity back to people who lost it. there's a whole other side to 'judgment' that goes beyond who sinned and who didn't.
i do think that god's wrath shouldn't be a scare tactic to making converts. that's just ridiculous.
i just got your john piper article, so i'll be reading that and screaming pretty soon... i'll let you know when i let it all out. : )
did you hear about john piper telling his daughter that God allowed the twin cities' bridge to collapse so people would fear him?
read the article here.
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/745_putting_my_daughter_to_bed_two_hours_after_the_bridge_collapsed/
kinda rough if you ask me. a bit of bad theology maybe?
John Piper? Sounds like a tool to me. But I read the article, and he does mean well, but I don't think he directly told his daughter that God made that bridge collapse, but she probably took it that way.
"The meaning of the collapse of this bridge is that John Piper is a sinner and should repent or forfeit his life forever. That means I should turn from the silly preoccupations of my life and focus my mind’s attention and my heart’s affection on God and embrace Jesus Christ as my only hope for the forgiveness of my sins and for the hope of eternal life."
followed by :
“With his pinky.” “Yes,” I said, “with his pinky. Which means that God had a purpose for not holding up that bridge, knowing all that would happen, and he is infinitely wise in all that he wills.”
Talitha said, “Maybe he let it fall because he wanted all the people of Minneapolis to fear him.” “Yes, Talitha,” I said, “I am sure that is one of the reasons God let the bridge fall.”
I think you have to believe in God to fear God. So most of Minneapolis probably doesn't fear God because their bridge fell.
Bad theology or no, I think John is a good guy with good intentions. And he loves Jesus.
Piper went to Fuller. Everything he says must be absolutely true.
Fuller is the new Bible.
Word. Tim.
no, he affirmed that notion in his daughter. i just get weirded out when we possibly add a divine undertone to a mistake or accident that happened in order to make sense of it. what if the bridge collapse was just shitty engineering?
I agree, but I always fear there is going to be the shitty one upper argument "Maybe God decided that bridge should fall due to crappy engineering before the plans were even put down." John Piper definitely power tooled it out on this project, and has probably turned his daughter into a tool as well, but he loves God. I wonder if something happened to one of his family he would have the same attitude?
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