f2:19 aftermath

Back in to the new year which means nothing more than the new year's resolutions we made for this year will be recycled next year. Now for some that seems a little too cynical and for others it may be realistic. That's fine I suppose. I'm gonna get deeper with the whole F2:19 : No longer strangers idea. Today I was surfing around my space which, as I found, it can be really hostile. Its like people talking in small sound bytes that don't really mean anything and most that I have encountered have been mean-spirited. In th middle of all of these words is the Word Jesus Christ, the word that plopped itself down into the middle of ugliness and decided that He would haang out for a while. He comes to be with us and if you have stopped to take a breath from the busyness that tends to plague your life, then you know what it is to realize that busyness can mask loneliness and words can mask deep isolation. It is like being in a coffee shop, the usual place where we go to hang out with friends, talk to people, but in this coffee shopthe people are gone and there is only your own scuffle of feet across the floor. When you reach the register to ask for something to drink, you see that somehow Jesus got past you in order to say come on, I came to see you and while I am at it I want you to have a bite to it. Don't worry...its on me. A powerful encounter when our lostness is met with surprising presence. An encounter with God when the world suggests that it cannot happen. I saw the words of a my space guy and they were dark and angry and I think our hearts should break for this poor child of God that something has told him that life is about saying mean words. I believe that his enjoyment of anger is something we are quick to criticize but I think we are not so critical when we see that we are busy enjoying our own anger for wrongs that won't be righted and rights that will never see beyond an eclipsing shadow. AN encounter with Jesus who says you are not alone. And then its the hard stuff- going out not because we need everyone to see the world the way we see it but to share something amazing like Jesus coming to be with us regardless of whether we made a resolution or not for the new year.