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		<title>Which Way Am I Called to Follow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this hot political season, with voices raised about guns, jobs, freedom, the American Way, I find myself pausing to ask: which Way am I called to follow? Whose priorities should I to pursue? Before Christians were called Christians, they were called Followers of the Way. The Way was Jesus: simultaneously the path itself, guide and example, companion on the journey. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me.” But he also said “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). The way to relationship with God, to the full life Jesus promised, is through Jesus himself, but also through following the path he shows us, walking with him the road of sacrifice and self-denial. Following the Way of Christ starts with a willingness to set our native loyalties aside. Jesus said again and again: leave your nets, your fields, your money, your life, and come, follow me. The early believers understood that the first step of the Christian journey was a step away from all prior allegiance, including allegiance to self, to comfort, safety, the... ]]></description>
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		<title>Perplexed, But Still Hopeful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Kuniholm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be— these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. (from Carrion Comfort, Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1887) We see through a glass darkly – but there are times that seem darker than others. Winter nights close in; the accumulating sorrows of friends and family pile like snowdrifts against our windows. We find ourselves wishing for summer, or surfing vacation rental websites, longing for escape. We wrestle with hope: Is healing possible? Is wholeness an illusion? Does it make sense to invest, again, and again, in systems that seem irrevocably broken, in people who seem determined to fail? Reading Hopkins’ “Carrion Comfort”, I find myself wondering what struggles sapped his strength, stole his joy, led him toward the dark place of doubting God’s goodness. His poem points back toward Jacob, running from home, wrestling in the dark with God. And it calls to mind Paul, in his second letter to the Corinthians, confessing his own  temptation to despair. For some reason, we pretend that conversion to Christ is... ]]></description>
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