Blogging Towards Sunday, June 19, 2011
This passage from Jeremiah contains several verses (11-14) commonly quoted as a favorite by many readers and hearers of the Bible. It’s a radical affirmation that God doesn’t leave us, abandon us to the cruel contexts in which we may find ourselves. But rather God is present – even when it doesn’t seem to be so – working underneath what we see, behind the curtain, preparing, calling, healing, delivering all with a divine intention. Isn’t that the real challenge of faith? It’s not all that impossible to believe in a God that infinitely loves us, but it is difficult to believe and live that when life is in its most difficult, when it seems that there is no rhyme or reason for what happens, that there could not be a divine being behind it all, urging the universe towards peace, blessing and a future.
