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Troy has assured me he can speak in front of a crowd of people without giant strings of snot coming off of his nose and awkwardly hanging on his hand after he wipes his face. Because of this assurance I am going to join him for a speaking engagement in College Station, TX tomorrow (Sunday) night. I will speak just a few words so as to avoid public mucus humiliation. Instead I'll listen to Troy from the safety of a seat surrounded by copious amounts of tissue. The day may come where I could speak without uncontrollable sobbing, but it is not coming tomorrow.
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Corrigan (full time in Haiti also) read my thoughts about Geology in a previous post and came back at me with these thoughts - I liked his angle and wanted to share it with you ...
Active participation:
God did this or allowed THIS for some reason
Passive Permittance:
God didn't have anything to do with THIS, but didn't care to stop it.
Active but ineffective Resistance:
God actively opposed THIS, but was not victorious in his opposition.
There is no "THIS":
God had a mixture of actions & responses to a whole bunch of things with great complexity.
A near infinite number of things happened on Jan 12, not just one earthquake with the same impact on everybody. Lots of peoples' stories came to very different transition points, plot twists and turns, and sometimes, tragic conclusions. There were things that happened that were just, there were things that were unjust, there were supernatural forces and natural ones, there were things that God wanted to happen and things that were not His desire, but part of an unfinished spiritual war. There was grief and redemption all in a swirl, because this is not yet the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. There were plates shifting and prayers answered and there was evil. The only reason we look for ONE particular answer for it all is that it was ONE shared experience. But our stories aren't truly all the same... they just intersected. So finding ONE reason or one reason NOT to talk about reasons is just not whole enough of a response. God acted, resisted, allowed, rejoiced, grieved, and withheld in response to a million different things on Jan 12, like He does everyday, only I imagine this day he grieved much more.
(Corrigan Clay)
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C.S. LEWIS SONG - TO LISTEN GO HERE
If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy
I can only conclude that I was not made for here
If the flesh that I fight is at best only light and momentary
Then of course I’ll feel nude when to where I’m destined I’m compared
CHORUS
Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
As I wait for hope to come for me
Am I lost or just less found,
On the straight or on the roundabout of the wrong way?
Is this a soul that stirs in me,
Is it breaking free, wanting to come alive?
‘Cause my comfort would prefer for me to be numb
And avoid the impending birth
Of who I was born to become
CHORUS
Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
As I wait for hope to come for me
Happy Valentine's Day to all lovers.
29 comments:
"'Cause my comfort would prefer for me to be numb
And avoid the impending birth
Of who I was born to become"
This SO resonates with me! Since the earthquake I've felt a calling ... not just a whisper, mind you, but a daily strong urging to become actively involved in helping Haitians. I've taken some small steps in that direction, but I'm being led to do more. I'm 65 years old, poor by USA standards, my energy level isn't the best, and even though the work I'm called to do requires only that I sit at my computer, it also requires a daily commitment. Please pray for me to have faith that God will provide if I do His will.
I'm glad you have a break. You are in my prayers.
I loved reading Corrigan's perspective. It is easy for people to judge when they are not there in the midst of it all. God is everywhere! Thanks.
Corrigan's words are beautiful. The mix of allowing bad things, protecting people, redeeming situations, dealing with evil, etc is wahat makes God God. And I love how corrigan said he does this ever day. I've been mulling all of THIS too due to your original post and some other things I read. My kids have this toy that is a build a gear type toy. It has a bunch of plastic gears that you can make interlock but it also has "plates" on which the gears set. Those plates can interlock in a straight line or you can even make a cube. Once you put the gears on it, you turn one gear to make all the other gears work. I think somehow all the gears of redemption and evil and justice and free will cog together every day with each individual person. What happens on one gear affects another and another, not just in a straight line but on the sides and on the top and it is impossible for human minds to understand how all of the turning works. But somehow God sees it all and is Sovereign over it. It's like we can only think in three dimensions but God thinks in so many more. In His mind there must be hundreds of millions of lives running just like interacting gears set against a background of things like time and geography. And somehow He "gets it" and knows how and why it all works.
Its sad to hear that our brothers in haiti are suffering from now..i hope we held our hands together and help them.
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Corrigan's response was great and interesting. I tend to not wrap my head around the why's....it can be so mind-boggling. Trusting in the Lord is all I have or know. But,of course, being so close to everything can make trusting a job that is hard to do. Therein, the struggle...I will pray for you as you trust the Lord with your life and work. Please know this...your sharing this struggle is very valuable to me. I pray that I can be a witness in my simple existence. I have to trust the Lord that it is counting for something too. Be strong tonight....I'm sure you'll do great. Your tears come from a heart that God has cultivated so if the tears flow and you couldn't help it...it must be your Spirit man and can't do anything to stop Him. So praise the Lord!
where in college station?! I wanna go hear!
corrigan is a flippin' genius.
Oh wow...I REALLY like that!! Love it actually!!
I love Brooke Fraser almost as much as I love your blog and Haiti. Thanks for continuing to write...
We just finished listening to a 2-part sermon set by Andy Stanley that he did right after the tsunami in Indonesia. It really addresses the questions in a thorough and scriptural way. When we ask "did God make this happen or let this happen?" what we really want to know is "who is God and what is he like?" Is he really good and is he really great? I highly recommend the sermons.
Jodie
Wow...that was an amazing perspective. Thanks for sharing that! I wish we were a bit closer to College Station so we could come and encourage you all in person, but know that we are continuing to pray for your family. If you end up driving back to MN and are heading up the beautiful I-35, please consider stopping to see us in Oklahoma...I'd sure love to meet you guys and our church would be blessed to hear from you as well. Just a thought :)
Keep on keepin' on...God is using you in more ways that you probably even realize. I love that you keep it real.
Bless you,
Liesl Irwin
I just cannot see God as the great big personnel manager in the sky.
This post was awesome. Thank you for taking the time to share. So often, I don't know what to say to someone who is in pain. I will read this again, slowly, and learn. Have you ever heard of "Affliction," by Edith Schaeffer? It is an awesome resource for answers to grief and suffering, also. You are in my prayers. I think you are an amazing family, and an example of how Christians should live and share their gifts.
Oh my word. Thank you Corrigan.
Ephesians 3:14For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Tara, way to make me almost as famous as you. When do I get my complimentary limousine?
I will be writing more of an extended reflection on this stuff on my blog (apparentproject.blogspot) soon, but first I need to report about the MASSIVE Jesus festival that's been going on. There was an exorcism on our street yesterday, worship could be heard for miles, and the crowd of people praising God downtown looked like another earthquake... God is blowing my mind!
I'm so thankful you braved the snot and came to Com Church last night. A group of us from New Life came to listen.
We left there blessed.
Thank you. lots.
Heather
I second Heather.
We came away truly blessed with the transparency of your story. Thank y'all for sharing your hearts with us.
Praying for your sweet family.
Megan
Don't know if you're familiar with this ministry, but it encouraged me today:
http://ourlifeinhaiti.blogspot.com/2010/02/revival-in-haiti.html
Hey, I've been following your blog since the day of the earthquake. I've smiled and cried with you and I've prayed for you all. Then tonight I read that you were within 50 minutes of us in Texas yesterday. Oh no.. I'm so sad that I didnt know that. I'd have loved to met you, hugged you, or something. At least I could have let you know that you have more support than you can ever know about. I don't know I just feel that I love you all as brothers and sisters in Christ. I'd have loved to heard you speak. Anyway it wasn't to be. I'm still praying for you. Thanks for your regular posts. I'll continue to follow. God speed.
Thank you for sharing this perspective. Profound! The fact is God's ways are not our ways. Jackie
Another echoing New Life-er...thank you so much for sharing your story on Sunday!
Praying for your precious family! What a story of God's grace, sovereignty and goodness!
Shannan
Tara - thank you for sharing Corrigan's words. Very wise for being a tat guy! :)
Thank you for sharing so truthfully. I love to smile with you, and cry with you - I have a snot issue as well so public speaking is very dangereous for me too. Wish I could have been there to hear Troy! I bet you the snot was flying (by those listening)!
Love you all...prayers to you all,
~Amy in WI
T and T,
We very much echo the above. God meets you where you are at.
You just happen to be very public about it. We admire you courage to be public , and truthful, about your journey.
With love and prayer for you and Troy,
J and S
What a beuatiful and true quote!
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