The
goal of the Christian way is not human purity, but divine fellowship.
Our task is not to sweep and beautify the house so that there is not
a speck of evil dust to be found, but to invite our Lord to dwell
with us and fill the house with the laughter of forgiveness and the
conversation of grace. (From A Year with Jesus (page 125) by
Eugene H. Peterson author of The Message).
This
passage by Eugene Peterson brought immediately to mind the structure
of the “Little Joke”
(http://www.wayneblogs.com/2013/03/the-abiding-little-joke-revisited.html).
The reality in this situation is not a fantasy world of the
immaculately clean (the world, after all, is in a siege of “muddy
rainy weather.”) The objective while within this mess is for the
presence of the Trinity to fill our lives with forgiveness and grace
so that steadiness can prevail in the midst of ambiguity, conflict,
and strife—something only possible with the presence and strength
of the Trinity—of Blessed Assurance embodied.
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