“Faith Is the Last Blessing”
Jn. 4:43-54
seeing as the basis for believing the way we humans function, the way we operate. we have a difficult time believing in something we do not experience or we do not see ourselves. The Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel wrote very poignantly about this kind of unbelief when he watched a child hang and the child would not die, because he was too light. Wiesel wrote: “For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red; his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me, I heard the same man asking: Where is God now?” and i heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is He. .He is hanging here on the gallows.”
Faith is a blessing that we have, despite everything the world throws at us, our faith persists when we believe in Christ’s resurrection, without having ever seen His risen body. To have hope in what seems like a hopeless world and to believe it, this is a blessing itself.
went to foodbank, to redwood city to take book to paul, flowers to vicki, lunch with rose and peter, cleaned food and packaged. ran into Jen from Santa Rosa in redwood city. good meeting. she is struggling with her father’s illness and separation from her husband, working on her phd. it was a meeting i believe that was planned ahead of time, not by us. outreach and bed. deo gratis! thanks be to God!
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