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ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2015 1 KINGS 19:4-8
It had been the most traumatic few days of his life. As he sat under a bush in the desert he relived the momentous events that had driven him to this point – the lowest trough in his troubled existence. He went over in his mind the events of the last week, wondering if he had done the right thing, if there was something he could have done differently, wrestling with his inadequacies, his hopelessness. And then there was God – the God he was serving. Wasn’t he actually the God who had deserted him? He had been obedient, he had served God faithfully, risked it all, and now it seemed that God had failed him,
abandoned him, left him like wounded quarry to be avaged by predators. Death was now a gentle friend – a kind helper who would soothe his conscience, calm his fear, take his hand, and walk peacefully with him into nothingness. He longed for that oblivion, the end of the conflicts and the fear. He even prayed for it. “I have had enough, Lord. Take my life.” But things had gone so well.
He had just.... (Read the full Sermon here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/dfc_attachments/public/documents/3210425/20150809_The_Journeys_too_much_for_you-Eat.pdf )
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By The Rev. Dr. Duncan H. Johnston, RectorELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2015 1 KINGS 19:4-8
It had been the most traumatic few days of his life. As he sat under a bush in the desert he relived the momentous events that had driven him to this point – the lowest trough in his troubled existence. He went over in his mind the events of the last week, wondering if he had done the right thing, if there was something he could have done differently, wrestling with his inadequacies, his hopelessness. And then there was God – the God he was serving. Wasn’t he actually the God who had deserted him? He had been obedient, he had served God faithfully, risked it all, and now it seemed that God had failed him,
abandoned him, left him like wounded quarry to be avaged by predators. Death was now a gentle friend – a kind helper who would soothe his conscience, calm his fear, take his hand, and walk peacefully with him into nothingness. He longed for that oblivion, the end of the conflicts and the fear. He even prayed for it. “I have had enough, Lord. Take my life.” But things had gone so well.
He had just.... (Read the full Sermon here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/dfc_attachments/public/documents/3210425/20150809_The_Journeys_too_much_for_you-Eat.pdf )