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Complete obedience can mean to be in such sink / harmony with the Divine that there are no longer separate wills.
Read the rest of this entry »For our Epiphany worship yesterday we were blessed with a luminous sermon offering from Judith Slimmon. With her permission, I have posted her manuscript below.
Looking back at old sermons is an interesting exercise in revisiting the past.
This is not exactly a return to IASP at this time.
Good Friday appears to be a complete dead-end.
In the face of the tragic realities that so often afflict the world, we need a new strategy.
Hope does not need to operate only in the future tense. Hope, at its best, is not “pie in the sky in the sweet by and by.”
“You are hopeless.”
Having looked honestly and with as much objectivity as possible at the realities of my life and acknowledging the intransigence of certain realities, what realistically might hope look like?
When things are deeply difficult and profoundly painful, what might I hope for?
In A Spacious Place 