With just 2.5 weeks left on this year long blog project, I totally choked. There have been things happening but not much brain power left out to relate them. Although the time allotted for this whole Pride and Prejudice and gender ideas and Jesus doing awesomeness project is about to time out, the interesting lessons cropping up just keep coming.
One of these new lessons involves the possible co-dependence of trust and respect. I thought of this when thinking about how we sometimes want to say, "I will trust you as long as you do ...," or "I respect you as long as you don't..." Those conditions nullify the original statement. I'm still not totally sure yet what this all means, but I'm thinking it is really important.
Another idea involves the goodness of grief. Madeline L'Engle writes that "Wounds [can be] the Midwives of Loveliness." The importance of suffering is something that has danced around at the corners of my reason for the last year. But I'm learning as of last week that like Jesus weeping for Lazarus (despite knowing that he would bring him back in a couple of days) allowing grief over a wound might be the key to truly forgiving and stepping onwards.
I'm excited to see what God brings up next. Thanks for reading!
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