Friend Jen said update, so here we are…

From my journal…

A rambling, messy thought on personal responsibility.

“And what should I say? Father deliver me from this hour? No, for it is for this hour that I was created…” this verse where Jesus is struggling with his upcoming crucifizion (literal historical context) strikes me in that it has two subjects-both present and equally acknowledged. Jesus is attentive to the father, pouring out his feelings to him as they are happening, but he also is attentive to the circumstances of his life, and the world around him. One is in no way compromised by the other. Christ’s deep love for the world implies a deep relationship and commitment to God his father, and the relationships speaks back into his care for the world. Too often I don’t see the connection here, and I fall into the unspoken excuse that following hard after God will entail an ethereal impracticality, a shirking of real world responsibility when the truth is that it is this “following hard” that enables the vision necessary to see reality and its responsibilities.

Domesticity

Freshly carved fruit on a table. A folded plate. Napkins stacked atop napkins. Friendly banter. Sideways skewed, yet slightly bent. And her voice coming from beyond a corner.

And her voice coming from beyond a corner. Freshly carved fruit on a table. Sideways skewed, yet slightly bent. A folded plate. Friendly banter. Napkins stacked atop napkins.