Feels Like It's Time to Dream Again

"Why do You hide Your face from me?"

"Why do You keep silent when I need You most?"

"May Your Name be praised."

Can a man hold on to God in the face of suffering?

Suffering: a test of love.

"Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"

Struggle.

If you're my friend, "nud" with me... Sit with me for seven days.

If you're my friend, don't need to open your mouth.

This time, silence is gift.

Raw staggers of bitterness, confusion, sorrow, and anger.

Doctrine of retribution: not true.

Did I sin that I suffer?

The biggest difference between me and God is that God doesn't think He's me.

Run! Run for help!

Maybe pain can draw me closer to God.

Not that I want pain.

Prayer of compliant, frank and rude.

Maybe weakness is really refusing the help God is offering.

"Why would God water a land where no one lives?"

God of gratuitious goodness.
Uncontrollably generous.
Irrationally loving.
Unreasonable grace.

"Why would God make a river run through wilderness and decorate it with beauty and grace?"

"Why does God delight in animals of no apparent use at all?"

Look at the goofy ostrich who can't even remember where she laid her eggs! But when she runs - O my! "She laughs at horse and rider."

It's worth it. Don't give up.

"What if God's wild extravagance, His wastefulness, His passion for the unnecessary and the excessive and the completely useless...What if the extravagance extends to me? I am not a soldier for God, or a valued servant in the kingdom. I am a jester! I am made to charm Him."

"My ears had heard of You but now my eyes have seen you."

That's enough. You know. You care.

That's enough.

"On the cross is the ultimate paradox: God experiencing the absence of God so that he can draw close to us in our loss and grief and even our God-forsakeness."

No one can see the face of God and live.
"I always thought that it means no one can see God's glory and live. Perhaps it means no one can see God's suffering and live. Or perhaps his suffering is his glory."

"God would rather be the suffering God of a suffering people than the blest God of an unblest people."

Come, delight in giving to the least stategic creatures.

I am not alone.