The world ought to make sense. Right?!

Some things just seem to matter.  To everyone.  Things like beauty.  Or community.  Or justice.

We long for these things.  We crave them.  We have this intuition that they’re important and good and right.  Yet all too often they seem to lay beyond our reach.

What do we make of this?  Is it all a cruel joke?  Mere fantasy?  Or are these things actually signs — signs pointing to a greater meaning in the world?

The fallout of sin is brokenness, a shattering of shalom. But Jesus is at work for wholeness. In our own stories, our brokenness and woundedness, Christ is restoring wholeness. He is putting the broken pieces back together. May the Spirit lead us in self-awareness as the Spirit forms us into our true selves in Christ-  To join God in his renewing work we make space for Holy Spirit’s transforming work.

Practice: Slowing Down

“Signposts name a reality and point us in a direction.  Likewise, these … signposts name realities that all human cultures value as well as pointing beyond themselves to the meaning of life, to the meaning of the world.  They indicate, in fact, how we ought to ‘make sense’ of the world — how we ought to understand the way the world is and the challenge of being human within it.  The fact that we care about them and are puzzled by them is itself telling us something about the deep ‘sense’ of the world.” — Tom Wright