on the rolling plains???
I've been neglecting my blog (as one among several other neglected babies. Though, its dangerous territory to compare a blog to a baby. It doesn't work really.)...
Currently, sipping a half-priced mocha drink from ERC. Everytime I come in here (which, unfortunately, is often), I see my friend Laura. She usually introduces me to others as being "from Grand Rapids." In correcting her, I throw the conversation into the confusion of, "Wait... what happened? I thought... Oh."
We've shaped this world strangely around us: moving today and yesterday and tomorrow, not being "from" anywhere specific, not even one state; yet, seeking to identify ourselves as an extension of a city of a state of a country.
People around me are shouting about how Israel is a whore, and not even a good one... and I suppose, this was where Hosea came in and married the prostitue Gomer (to demonstrate God's faithfulness to Israel, the whore). Their freaking out--from those people around me--is what they'd call "studying" for their Bible class. That's my kind of studying.
Currently, sipping a half-priced mocha drink from ERC. Everytime I come in here (which, unfortunately, is often), I see my friend Laura. She usually introduces me to others as being "from Grand Rapids." In correcting her, I throw the conversation into the confusion of, "Wait... what happened? I thought... Oh."
We've shaped this world strangely around us: moving today and yesterday and tomorrow, not being "from" anywhere specific, not even one state; yet, seeking to identify ourselves as an extension of a city of a state of a country.
People around me are shouting about how Israel is a whore, and not even a good one... and I suppose, this was where Hosea came in and married the prostitue Gomer (to demonstrate God's faithfulness to Israel, the whore). Their freaking out--from those people around me--is what they'd call "studying" for their Bible class. That's my kind of studying.
posted by B-Go at
11:58 AM
4 Comments:
I read a commentary on II King 19 a while back. It went like this:
“What is most moving is that in verse 21, the Lord called Judea ‘the virgin daughter of Zion’ in front of Assyrians.
Though the Lord has called Judea and Israel ‘adulteress’ and ‘prostitute’ to their faces, He addressed Judea as ‘the virgin daughter of Zion’ to Assyrians, and declared His favor and ownership over them.
God’s immeasurable love declares us, sinful humans, to be ‘holy’. The Lord convicts us of our sins and compels us to repent. But at the same time He proclaims against the enemy, Satan, ‘I do not see any fault or sin in her’.
I am being held in the arms of this very God.”
I’ve wanted to share this with somebody (preferably, with a girl), and there it was, you blog about Israel being a whore!
Completely unrelated: I though what Hosea has done was honorable and amazing, but he might not have been the most fun person to be married to. God’s faithfulness despite Israel’s infidelity is definitely amazing. I almost cried when I read the Bible comment above. But a super righteous human husband could be pretty annoying. That’s so not “good Christian” thing to think about. Oh well. LOL.
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Megumi, At
12:52 PM
I like your idea in the third paragraph. Changing the world when we move around; representing the places we've been.
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Anonymous, At
3:21 PM
that is an amazing commentary, megumi. :)
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strunny, At
5:00 PM
Your site is on top of my favourites - Great work I like it.
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