One of the first paragraphs brought me back to a Jack Johnson song, The News, where he sings, "Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die?"
But what really stuck me in this part of Eliot's work, was the "sword and the trowel" and I read Nehemiah 4 to dig a little deeper. Fighting is frightening in our world (to me at least). The grace emboldened courage that comes from God alone to wield a sword in truth and love... yea, I need to pray for that and gaze at how He did it
Amen. And not all of us need to fight all the time. I think some of us are better suited for building and some for defending. But the church as a whole needs both.
One of the first paragraphs brought me back to a Jack Johnson song, The News, where he sings, "Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die?"
But what really stuck me in this part of Eliot's work, was the "sword and the trowel" and I read Nehemiah 4 to dig a little deeper. Fighting is frightening in our world (to me at least). The grace emboldened courage that comes from God alone to wield a sword in truth and love... yea, I need to pray for that and gaze at how He did it
Amen. And not all of us need to fight all the time. I think some of us are better suited for building and some for defending. But the church as a whole needs both.