paravanes:meditations

This showed up in my Google Reader this morning, and I am grateful for it. These are the thoughts I wish to carry with me any time I am facing something which seems too large, too unjust, too unconquerable. Please read this wonderful sermon on how we should view 9/11 and "9/11 type" events in life. The sermon is (rightfully) under copyright, so here is the link to Bryan Burton's blog, Christ is Victorious .. Or, if you prefer Latin: Christus Victor.

9/11 Remebrance: Falling & Flying  Buildings falling,  people falling  planes falling.  What turns metal into fluid plasma?  What makes people jump from one hundred story high buildings?  What makes planes crash headfirst into a field and a Pentagon?  Metal flying,  arms and legs and heads and feet flying,  airplanes flying on missions of death.  When I watched "The Bodyguard",  Kevin Costner told Whitney Houston: If someone wants to trade their life for a kill,  you can't stop them.  Where were Kevin and Whitney when we needed them?  Lots of trades happened on 9/11.  A gang of killers un-stop-able.  Falling and flying and dying and crying.  Without warning and without reason,  people died, people cried.  People falling into grief,  into sadness, into madness.  Falling into war and more dying and more crying.  Falling i...