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Monday, March 28, 2005
Hope all of you had a meaningful Holy Week study and a joyful Easter celebration!
As is our custom on weeks we don't have Sunday School, we'll use this blog for provocative quotes I find in my reading, so feel free to comment away on the various subjects!
Today's quote is from Eugene Peterson (in a recent issue of "Christianity Today"):
"This promise of intimacy is both right and wrong. There is an intimacy with God, but it's like any other intimacy; it's part of the fabric of your life. In marriage you don't feel intimate most of the time. Nor with a friend. Intimacy isn't primarily a mystical emotion. It's a way of life, a life of openness, honesty, a certain transparency...
...If you read the saints, they're pretty ordinary people. There are moments of rapture and ecstasy, but once every 10 years. And even then it's a surprise to them. They didn't do anything. We've got to disabuse people of these illusionsof what the Christian life is. It's a wonderful life, but it's not wonderful in the way a lot of people want it to be."
The question today is this: Do we have expectations of the spiritual life that are unrealistic? If so, what do these expecations cause if they're unmet? What is a realistic expectation of intimacy with God?
Brent 5:37 AM
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