Last week I heard from someone who wondered why I hadn't
updated my blog in a while. I confess to
being surprised that anyone actually read it.
Why, I wondered would anyone want to take time from their already busy
life to read the musings of a country preacher?
This morning I think I may have found the answer: theodicy. What, you ask, is that? According to a web site I visited, it is: the branch of
theology concerned with defending the attributes of God against objections
resulting from physical and moral evil.[1]
Okay, that wasn't much help, but if
we define it as a way to see God in the world, or as a way to try to understand
that God is at work in the world even when we can't see how it is possible,
then perhaps that is a reason to read what people who claim to be people of
faith are thinking.
So what am I thinking today? As I sit here in my sick bed (I've caught
that cold that is going around) I am grateful for the extra time I have this
week to sit in the presence of God and to remember that this relationship is
the most important one in my life. I
take long, deep breaths and bathe my spirit in the amazing peace that comes
from resting in God.
And I resolve that after I am well,
I will try yet again to keep this peace as a priority in my life even when the
busyness of ministry again overtakes my time.
Let's do it together. Amen.
