A reflection on cerebral engagement with the Bible at the expense of listening to God.
Published by Foundling House
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Published by Foundling House
www.foundlinghouse.com/post/midweek-small-group
Nine knocks on the door and now
scattered round the room, seven seated, one kneeling and one stretched out. Civil. Polite. Self-conscious (apart from the stretched one, as well we know). After moments of obligatory conversation – a difficult colleague, a big decision, a struggling child – the search for meaning, the reason we all came, unfolds once more and, oblivious to our strangeness, in so many questions answered we dissect what Christ meant when he said that a father would not give his son a stone instead of bread or a snake instead of a fish. We are pleased to have realised - to have been shown, I should say - that it’s all about The Addressed, not our techniques of prayer. Then, when the time comes to re-enter the world, the short night drive home, a notion of tomorrow’s troubles, the obligatory conversation looms large and maybe declaring that God is the giver of all good gifts is not the same as asking, and receiving. |