The Unbroken Chain of Truth in the Lives of Broken People
Ivan relates the gospel events to the two widows. This has an acute effect on them. As he heads home, Ivan reflects on the implications of this and has an epiphany.
Ivan relates the gospel events to the two widows. This has an acute effect on them. As he heads home, Ivan reflects on the implications of this and has an epiphany.
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O’Connor
It seems to me, and your own experience will bear this out, that This Instant is the impetus of Your Best Life Now and that self-help schemes produce the thinness and self-deception of a tenuous now.
“I don’t go in to visit these girls and give them a tract and say ‘God bless you,’ and invite them around to take tea with me. That’s not my kind of work. There are some girls that it’s mighty hard to help, but there are some little, fresh young things that have just been brought to Chinatown, and that you can sometimes reach in time to save them.” -Rose Livingston
“The church is like a country club.”
That’s what I said to my parents as a teenager back in the 60s.
What do we talk about when we talk about apocalypse?
Past, present, and future, like specters, enter her thoughts.
Should we hope that with the advent of the New World Order that things will be put right?