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Hope Comes After (All Saints 2022, Luke 6:20-31)
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We often think hope to be a function of love. It is. Yet hope in the midst of loss isn't something that always heals. Sometimes it has a dampening effect on our healing because it feels like a gloss over our woundedness for the easing of the present's awkwardness rather than a soothing balm for our wounded heart.
Love sits in pain, cleanses the wound, and walks forward with us. Jesus' pronouncements of blessedness in times of trouble aren't meant to offer easy fixes, but invite us into a deeper consideration of what reality is in the reign of God.
196 episodes
Manage episode 346459685 series 2286255
We often think hope to be a function of love. It is. Yet hope in the midst of loss isn't something that always heals. Sometimes it has a dampening effect on our healing because it feels like a gloss over our woundedness for the easing of the present's awkwardness rather than a soothing balm for our wounded heart.
Love sits in pain, cleanses the wound, and walks forward with us. Jesus' pronouncements of blessedness in times of trouble aren't meant to offer easy fixes, but invite us into a deeper consideration of what reality is in the reign of God.
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