My God\u2026 my God\u2026 why have you forsaken me<\/i>\u2026 these words were spoken by Jesus\u2026 but there are people who said these words last month\u2026 and this month\u2026 this week\u2026 and this day\u2026 maybe even as I\u2019m saying them now\u2026 people who never thought\u2026 could never have imagined\u2026 that a pandemic would touch their lives\u2026 or the lives of those they know\u2026 and love\u2026 that they would have to contend with an enemy they could not see\u2026 and that many of them would die\u2026 that the response of our government would bring to mind the expression\u2026 too little too late<\/i>\u2026 would make them wonder what more\u2026 we could have done\u2026 and we could have done better\u2026 tho at this point\u2026 we will never know exactly how much better\u2026<\/p>\n
But we cannot wish away what is\u2026 all that we can do\u2026 is decide how we will respond to it\u2026\u00a0and apparently\u2026 social distancing\u2026 minimizing our\u2026 and each other\u2019s exposure\u2026 flattening the curve\u2026 is the most we can do\u2026 so that when some of us do get sick\u2026 there won\u2019t be so many at any one time\u2026 that our hospitals and health care workers are overwhelmed\u2026 and are unable to give us the care we need\u2026 for the best possible outcome\u2026<\/p>\n
Richard Rohr wrote\u2026 on Good Friday\u2026 we lament Jesus\u2019 death\u2026 while also living in hope that death does not have the last word on our destiny\u2026 because we are born with a longing\u2026 a desire\u2026 and a deep hope\u2026 that this thing called Life\u2026 could somehow last forever\u2026 but that longing rises up from an eternal something that\u2019s already within us\u2026 yes\u2026 we are going to die\u2026 but we have already been given a kind of inner guarantee\u2026 that death is not final \u2014 and this guarantee takes the form of love\u2026<\/p>\n
We wonder what more we could have done\u2026 and we lament every\u2026 single\u2026 unanswered\u2026 question\u2026 Why?\u2026 but God has not forsaken us\u2026 and the most we can do\u2026 as we marvel at creation and our lives in it\u2026 is nothing compared to what God has done\u2026 is nothing compared to God\u2019s best possible outcome\u2026 because God has swallowed up death forever\u2026 has given us eternal life\u2026 and turns our perishable bodies\u2026 into imperishable ones\u2026 I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with wanting to live\u2026 I just don\u2019t think we have any idea how much life God has in store for us\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My God\u2026 my God\u2026 why have you forsaken me\u2026 these words were spoken by Jesus\u2026 but there are people who said these words last month\u2026 and this month\u2026 this week\u2026 and this day\u2026 maybe even as I\u2019m saying them now\u2026 people who never thought\u2026 could never have imagined\u2026 that a pandemic would touch their lives\u2026 or the lives of those they know\u2026 and love\u2026 that they would have to contend with an enemy they could not see\u2026 and that many of them would die\u2026 that the response of our government would bring to mind the expression\u2026 too little too late\u2026 would make them wonder what more\u2026 we could have done\u2026 and we could have done better\u2026 tho at this point\u2026 we will never know exactly how much better\u2026 But we cannot wish away what is\u2026 all that we can do\u2026 is decide how we will respond to it\u2026\u00a0and apparently\u2026 social distancing\u2026 minimizing our\u2026 and each other\u2019s exposure\u2026 flattening the curve\u2026 is the most we can do\u2026 so that when some of us do get sick\u2026 there won\u2019t be so many at any one time\u2026 that our hospitals and health care workers are overwhelmed\u2026 and are unable to give us the care we need\u2026 for the best possible outcome\u2026 Richard Rohr wrote\u2026 on Good Friday\u2026 we lament Jesus\u2019 death\u2026 while also living in hope that death does not have the last word on our destiny\u2026 because we are born with a longing\u2026 a desire\u2026 and a deep hope\u2026 that this thing called Life\u2026 could somehow last forever\u2026 but that longing rises up from an eternal something that\u2019s already within us\u2026 yes\u2026 we are going to die\u2026 but we have already been given a kind of inner guarantee\u2026 that death is not final \u2014 and this guarantee takes the form of love\u2026 We wonder what more we could have done\u2026 and we lament every\u2026 single\u2026 unanswered\u2026 question\u2026 Why?\u2026 but God has not forsaken us\u2026 and the most we can do\u2026 as we marvel at creation and our lives in it\u2026 is nothing compared to what God has done\u2026 is nothing compared to God\u2019s best possible outcome\u2026 because God has swallowed up death forever\u2026 has given us eternal life\u2026 and turns our perishable bodies\u2026 into imperishable ones\u2026 I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with wanting to live\u2026 I just don\u2019t think we have any idea how much life God has in store for us\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}