“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”
Matthew 5:4
“Joel’s sorrow did not manifest from his sin alone, but from the sin of his entire nation. Sometimes we forget to carry out this part of the story— the part where the church confesses we aren’t so squeaky clean, the part where saints get their ands dirty by sharing in the blame.”
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This one has been hard for me to come up with an experiment because it's so broad and vague!
But I've reflected on a couple of things this week:
1) As a mammographer working in a Cancer Center, I see people grieving over loss on a daily basis. Loss of a loved one to cancer, loss of the "old normal" when they receive the news that they have cancer. The struggle of the surgeries, the chemo and radiation treatments, the anxiety of retesting every few months, etc. And I'm pretty good at sensing when someone needs me to spend just a few minutes with them listening to their grief and empathizing with their loss.
2) I grieve the loss of our Christian heritage and moral values in this country. 50 years ago, most of our population considered themselves Christian, and the majority of people were at least associated with a Church. Our children were taught to respect God, their country, and their elders. Prayer was a normal part of the school day. Stores were closed on Sunday. I don't know if it was in honor of God or just that it wouldn't have been worthwhile to be open since most people considered Sunday a holy day, a day of rest.
3) I grieve the loss of a sense of individual responsibility in our country. I miss the days when most people believed that you should give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. I hate the attitude that has become so prevalent – that the government owes people something for nothing, and you're entitled to get everything for free. Nothing is free in this world. Someone has to foot the bill somewhere!
It grieves me that we have moved so far from our heritage. It scares me the direction we're going. Spiritually and politically.
So I guess the rest of my week will be spent thinking about these things and
1) praying for those I know of who are experiencing loss
2) weeping over the sins of our country and asking God to be merciful to us although we certainly don't deserve it.
3) interceding for those who seem to want to turn our country into something that has been proven over and over again not to work. Asking God to restore a sense of individual responsibility into our society.
I reflected on how certain people grieve the loss of a future (like what Dawn references above). Those who plan for children and never have them. Those who imagine their children growing into people that it appears they will never be. Those whose jobs never lead to where they expected them to lead. It takes getting outside myself to see others grief.
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I just completed reading a book called "I Stand" by Pam Morgan. It depicts the lessons God taught her while recovering from a tragic car accident that nearly left her paralyzed. As I read her words, I was profoundly struck by the transparency of what it is to grieve that which may not come to fruition. As I look back on circumstances in my own life, I too was reminded that we serve a God who redeems what the locusts have taken. The journey is perhaps along trails we would rarely choose, but through the sharing of the jewels found along the path, we experience the lessons God has for us….Lessons that help us identify more with His suffering and the suffering of others.
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I had a hard time this week, mostly because I struggle with comprehending how to even mourn. I can mourn for the loss of a loved one, or mourn with close friends, but I honestly do not know how to mourn for corporate sin or societal sin. In this age of an individualistic, dog-eat-dog world I suppose I've never learned how to properly mourn. So all the efforts to fulfill the mourning ideas or projects in the book are difficult by themselves, but more difficult when I feel like I'm at stage 1 in trying to figure out how to even truly mourn.
This was a redefining of the word "mourn" for me. And until I can grasp the same kind of mourning that Joel did, I feel I will be continuing to revisit this chapter to help me grow spiritually into authentic mourning.
I spent the last few days asking a few friends what they feel are the greatest sins commited by the American people. I was quite suprised as I suspected that some of the more common known sins would come up, however none of them have. Things such as "Moral Coolness" , "Greed", "Loose words- losing control of the tongue". I have spent a few days in prayer for us all that we may not struggle with these sins. There is a lot of words in the bible to give us direction and encouragement to get through each day one at time in dealing with these things.
Secondly, I have written a letter and been in prayer for a co-worker who is on the verge of losing his job while dealing with illness in his life. He is depressed and at a loss for hope. I wrote him some verses to use for encouragement as he does not speak highly of religion, I went out on a limb. God needs someone to speak through and it may as well be me, right?