Re (7): living among the dead

Hello Becky,

Yes, I do feel your prayers and I am very much indebted to you and all those who continue to uphold me and this ministry. I would venture to say that we all underestimate the power such intercession holds, but I can assure you that not only have I been consciously aware of prayer at times, but there have been many other occasions where upon re-reading something I had written not long ago, I was wiser than I am wise. This can only be because the hand of God is upon me and is working through my words even when I am not aware of the fact.

You know, the Don Juans and the Romeos are often seen as being the charming romantics. They've got all the moves down to an art form and spout metered verse from lips of honey; they appear to have achieved a high level of mastery in the field of love. Conversely, the ordinary husband may be viewed as boorish and boring, not to mention that he sometimes fights with his wife—an ugly scene by anyone's accounting. Yet the ordinary husband is the real master of love, for his is the authentic life; it is he who grapples with the real world trials of romance while the Don Juan moves on or the Romeo is impaled on his own myopic idealism. Likewise, there are those who have all the right moves and drip honey from golden lips when they speak on matters of theology. But then there are those who truly try to live lives led by the Master who at times seem more like heretics and blasphemers than believers because they are grappling with the real world trials of the spiritual life: a life lived by faith and not by sight. It should not surprise us that the dedicated followers will more closely resemble the married man than the Don Juan and hence will find themselves starting at square one more often than they care to count. Ne'er can they be accused of failing to satisfy the wish of their Lord: "Would that you were hot or cold...." For to go cold implies depth of feeling dashed by disillusion, and depth of feeling will never be felt by the Don Juans of life. The relationships the psychologist considers without hope are not the ones in which the partners hate one another, but the relationships in which they are coolly indifferent and apathetic.

God bless,
Eric

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