I have a friend who just found out his youngest son is hiv positive.
I tried to imagine saying the words he said to me, “My son is hiv positive.”
Couldn’t go there, too dark. That’s where he lives now.
Lord, have mercy, Christ have mercy.
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… is to try to tell the truth about what it’s like to live out a life of following Jesus. Not the “Fantasy Island” version where Mr. Roark says, “Smiles everyone, smiles! I expect it will get a bit messy in here, so if you like your Christianity all tidy and stuff, you might want to wander off somewhere else.The Name of This Blog …
… comes from a Thomas Merton quote. “Every one of us is shadowed by a false self. This is the man I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.”Quotes I like
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