We still are asking for prayer for the CPTers. The deadline was extended from last Thursday to last Saturday and now no news (except perhaps an Iraqi man sent to help advocate for them may have gone missing as well.) I am not entirely sure if I titled this entry that out of irony or hope. This is only to say that it is frustrating to hear the proclamation "PEACE ON EARTH" and yet see no peace... (just the perpetual crosses borne as the Peaceful challenge power). At best, Peace on earth, is a prayer. One that in the present state of the church (especially in the states) only seems unsubversive somehow at Chistmastime. Yet, may all that worship America be flung off their thrones and out of their vain imagining and may Christ indeed reign forever and ever.
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Amen--which is to say, well reasoned and well said--which is to say, I wholeheartedly agree with you! :)
Two songs come to mind: U2's questioning of "Peace on Earth," and Simon and Garfunkel's chilling version of "Silent Night" juxtaposed with the six o'clock news.
"They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace." (Jeremiah 6:14)
We aren't the only ones who've noticed the irony.
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