over the hills and faraway
I won't be traveling very far away today... the Portland metro area is encased in a sheet of ice.
But, again, as mentioned yesterday: birdie tracks!
Today's song lyric is from "Go Tell it on the Mountain," however, and meant, I suspect, to be taken metaphorically. I could slip and slide my way up Mount Hood and then proclaim from the top of a ski run, but I'm far better off taking this electronic opportunity to wish you all God's peace this day.
How do you proclaim your good news? We all have our own good news to tell. I've been struck by a Facebook connection who has been faithfully proclaiming the good news of finding energy and purpose through careful exercise and eating well. This good news is part of the wider, broader story of discovering who we are meant to be. We hobble ourselves in all sorts of ways, and I'd argue that this self-diminishment is at odds with the capital-letters Good News of Jesus' message. We are called to live fully into the promise that our world is a place not of scarcity but of abundance -- even when it doesn't seem that way. Scarcity is human, and it can be very real, but human scarcity isn't the whole story. Even the term looks like "scared," and that's exactly what it is -- a fear that if others have, we will lack. That doesn't have to be the way things work. And that is Good News indeed!
But, again, as mentioned yesterday: birdie tracks!
Today's song lyric is from "Go Tell it on the Mountain," however, and meant, I suspect, to be taken metaphorically. I could slip and slide my way up Mount Hood and then proclaim from the top of a ski run, but I'm far better off taking this electronic opportunity to wish you all God's peace this day.
How do you proclaim your good news? We all have our own good news to tell. I've been struck by a Facebook connection who has been faithfully proclaiming the good news of finding energy and purpose through careful exercise and eating well. This good news is part of the wider, broader story of discovering who we are meant to be. We hobble ourselves in all sorts of ways, and I'd argue that this self-diminishment is at odds with the capital-letters Good News of Jesus' message. We are called to live fully into the promise that our world is a place not of scarcity but of abundance -- even when it doesn't seem that way. Scarcity is human, and it can be very real, but human scarcity isn't the whole story. Even the term looks like "scared," and that's exactly what it is -- a fear that if others have, we will lack. That doesn't have to be the way things work. And that is Good News indeed!
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