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This is the second time to try and post it - it got eaten the first time.
Yesterday I told the powers that be here that I am going to look into another (very exciting but no further details for you yet) job opportunity at a university. These next few months should be an interesting journey for both Cats for Christ and myself. I am very excited about different parts of this spring semester.
The retreat coming up will be a great time of focus for our ministry and the others we have invited. We also have a devo in complete silence in a few weeks-ish (yes that is 75-90 minutes of silence with a group of college kids). I will post more on it after it happens. It should be a difficult but stretching time for our ministry.
The battle over Terri Schiavo continues. If that were my body and I was virtually gone, I would want to be removed from all artificial things that were keeping my organs running and blood pumping. I cannot imagine the difficultly of making this decision for either the husband or the parents. Both want what they seem as best for her, yet they are two very different things. And as a result they now are two opposing sides. It would be easy to say ______ is right the and the other is wrong. (Which was my initial reaction a few years ago when I first heard about this.) The need to scream “Can’t they see the clear answer?” But once again that cheapens the process they have been through and what they believe in the best interest. They both have people that affirm and attack their positions. One doctor tells the husband that she is just a physical shell and another tells the parents that she can be treated. A tragedy has severed this family and is being played out in the media and the courts.
I wonder what our world would be like if we could see that people arrive at these differences of opinion and beliefs through genuine though, concern, and search for truth or what is right and not just something that would be easy to sign onto (granted I am sure that not everyone does this - I don’t always do this). But what if we gave people the benefit of the doubt and came to the table of dialogue together rather than on the other side of the divide. What would our neighborhoods, communities look like? Our churches?