I'm writing my sermon... again. The reflection is about the psalm that Jesus quotes while on the cross. It begins with the words, "my God, why have you forsaken me?" I've written a sermon about this already. But it was explicitly about the cross. This time, we're not quite at the cross yet. We're just beginning the journey of Lent.
And so I'm wondering about how we question God's Way. And I'm wondering about how much of this world we don't understand. I'm wondering about how much of this life doesn't go the way that we wish. And I'm wishing that I could get to a place where my knee jerk reaction wasn't blaming God.
The psalmist both blames God and trusts God. The psalmist seems to understand that 1. there is a God and 2. I am not God. The first gives us someone to blame. The second resolves us to trust.
When I hold those two things in tension, I am always reminded of a David Wilcox song, "Show the Way."
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