"Why haven't you been to hell? We aren't called to live in hell; we're called to live in heaven. But as Dante found out, you can't get to heaven without going through hell first."
"The world is on fire--a world torn by hatred and strife, a world unredeemed. A world that is God's worst nightmare, of which God can no longer speak these words: 'And God saw that it was good.'
(p. 42 in Leonard Sweet's A Cup of Coffee at the Soul Cafe)
"The word came
and he went
in the other
direction.
God said: Cry
tears of compassion
tears of repentance; cry against
the reek
of unrighteousness: cry for
the right turn
the contrite spirit.
And Jonah rose
and fled
in tearless
silence."
-- Thomas John Carlisle
in A Cup of Coffee at the Soul Cafe.
Many times we cry out about the world gone bad, and we shake our fists at God because "He isn't doing anything about it!" But is it that God hasn't and isn't doing anything about it - or that we haven't been God's own by our thoughts, voice and actions?
What do you think?
