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In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
Tuesday of the 5th
Week of Lent
St. Luke’s Institute
April 8, 2014
GRUMBLING à
THEMES ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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“W/ their
patience worn out by journey, people complained agnst G & Moses: ‘We’re
disgusted w/ this wretched food’”
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Grumbling a major theme in story of the Exodus
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Provides setting for such important theological
motifs as waiting upon Lord, patience, faith, forgiveness, hope, & self-discipline
THEMES REST ON
HONESTY & COMPASSION +++++++
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I’d suggest all these themes seem rest upon
bedrock of honesty & compassion
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If not honest enuf 2 admit reality, begin 2 (1)
Have false hopes, (2) Make selfish demands & (3) Live in fantasy world
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We easily give up when the dream bubble bursts
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We’re unsatisfied w/ best efforts of R fam &
friends
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We expect the impossible, cannot forgive
possible human frailty in others
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Patience runs thin, hopes explode, faith gives
out, & we’re bitter against God & neighbor
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& most of all: R rancor attacks &
destroys ourselves
SERPENT ON A POLE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Moses went 2 root of distress & demanded
honsty
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He makes image of their sin & its punishment
& mounts it on a pole…
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“Look,” he
seems to say, “look at what you are &
what you’re doing / Look at fruit of evil straight in the face”
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When people look at bronze serpent, recovered
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When they admit honestly the reality of their
bitter complaints & beg God 2 heal them, they are far along way 2 full
recovery…
JESUS ON A CROSS
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When we look at the cross, we see ourselves &
confess effects of R sins
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J was made “2B sin,” R sins, R grumbling, R impatience,
R complaints, R inability 2 forgive
CONCLUSION
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Yes, God so loved the world!
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If on the cross we discover our honest self,
sinful & ungrateful, we also find ourselves closely united w/ J & J w/ ourselves
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If we look upon cross w/ this kind of faith, in
our very gazing, we’re healed & saved
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