Keeping Up With The Jayneses: God Can't Be Kept Out
"God can be wherever God wants to be. God needs no formal invitation. We couldn’t “systematically remove” God if we tried.
If the incarnation teaches us anything, it’s that God can be found everywhere: in a cattle trough, on a throne, among the poor, with the sick, on a donkey, in a fishing boat, with the junkie, with the prostitute, with the hypocrite, with the forgotten, in places of power, in places of oppression, in poverty, in wealth, where God’s name is known, where it is unknown, with our friends, with our enemies, in our convictions, in our doubts, in life, in death, at the table, on the cross, and in every kindergarten classroom from Sandy Hook to Shanghai. "
I for one believe that prayer should be kept in schools, that the name of God should remain in the Pledge of Allegiance and on our money, and yes, that we should remember what Christmas is truly about. But I also believe that we should not make God so small that we think we have any power to control where He is and will be.
Posted by Amanda Jaynes at 11:46 AM
Labels: Christmas, God, Holidays, Jesus, Musings
Keeping Up With The Jayneses: God Can't Be Kept Out
"God can be wherever God wants to be. God needs no formal invitation. We couldn’t “systematically remove” God if we tried.
If the incarnation teaches us anything, it’s that God can be found everywhere: in a cattle trough, on a throne, among the poor, with the sick, on a donkey, in a fishing boat, with the junkie, with the prostitute, with the hypocrite, with the forgotten, in places of power, in places of oppression, in poverty, in wealth, where God’s name is known, where it is unknown, with our friends, with ou
r enemies, in our convictions, in our doubts, in life, in death, at the table, on the cross, and in every kindergarten classroom from Sandy Hook to Shanghai. "
I for one believe that prayer should be kept in schools, that the name of God should remain in the Pledge of Allegiance and on our money, and yes, that we should remember what Christmas is truly about. But I also believe that we should not make God so small that we think we have any power to control where He is and will be.
Posted by Amanda Jaynes at 11:46 AM
Labels: Christmas, God, Holidays, Jesus, Musings