My Madeleine L'Engle devotional book this morning: George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble -- times when I have seen people tempted to deny God -- when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his."
Mockingbird article: Axl Rose and Michael Jackson attend a Christian music festival -
In one of the most beautiful sections of the book, Sullivan recalls his
own “Jesus phase.” But, as he writes, “a phase is supposed to end—or at
least give way to other phases—not simply expand into a long
preoccupation.” That is, he doesn’t harbor the usual emotional baggage
or resentment. “It isn’t that I feel psychologically harmed. It isn’t
even that I feel like a sucker for having bought it all. It’s that I
love Jesus Christ…. [Christ's] breakthrough was the aestheticization of
weakness. Not in what conquers, not in glory, but in what’s fragile and
what suffers—there lies sanity. And salvation.” Amen!
