tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231618967658396748.post1032750225492187793..comments2023-10-24T06:08:09.527-07:00Comments on Anglican Centrist: “. . . Until an Opportune Time”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231618967658396748.post-3247871567367225062010-03-17T16:01:13.608-07:002010-03-17T16:01:13.608-07:00No, it would make me want to get up and go somewhe...No, it would make me want to get up and go somewhere else less annoying. <br /> I hate opera and wouldn't go if you paid me.Brad Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17381562723928616425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231618967658396748.post-67464896370142774432010-03-16T14:57:31.761-07:002010-03-16T14:57:31.761-07:00Thanks for sharing that Mark, and God bless you. ...Thanks for sharing that Mark, and God bless you. The hurting doesn't stop. Neither does the love.The Godfatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10575359417766667457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231618967658396748.post-60383094953177237802010-03-14T22:18:54.882-07:002010-03-14T22:18:54.882-07:00Happy birthday! I hate cancer too. My dad died o...Happy birthday! I hate cancer too. My dad died of it in 1987 at the age of 61. I was only 17 at the time. I had a very hard time with his death -- I was alienated from God for many, many years because of it. Like you, I just couldn't understand why God would allow or create something like that. Of course, many years and much prayer later, I began to realize that God didn't create cancer -- it is a product of the fallen world in which we live, a world that is not as God originally ordered it. And that God's solution to that broken world is not to magically make it better, but to enter into its suffering, into our suffering, through His Son, Jesus Christ, who unjustly suffered and died so that all who have faith in Him might live in Spirit and truth, both now and for eternity. <br /><br />But, I have to say, whenever I think about my dad and his suffering, it still hurts. And that's every day...<br /><br />God's peace to you.Mark in Spokanehttp://www.markinspokane.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231618967658396748.post-64135204651083624832010-03-01T11:50:39.811-08:002010-03-01T11:50:39.811-08:00Eric, great post. Congrats on your 67th. This po...Eric, great post. Congrats on your 67th. This post makes a great campanion to Buechner's great book, "The Sacred Journey", which I try to read about every other year. If you haven't read it, put it at the top of your list. This post also reminded of Annie Dillard's view of "life as gift". Great stuff.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647539101326193733noreply@blogger.com