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GScheid
Mary's Servant
USA
406 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 5:58:48 PM
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Dear Parishioners,
Whenever I’m out driving I’m amazed at the
number of people who put bumper stickers
on their cars. I just don‘t get it someone will
spend $30,000 on a beautiful new SUV and
somehow will feel compelled to plaster an
89-cent sticker on it and the things that
people feel they need to announce to the
world bewilder me. One I saw the other
day got my attention, even though I had seen it before. As I
pulled up to a stoplight, the car in front of me greeted me
with these words:
JESUS IS THE ANSWER! That’s what it said. JESUS IS THE
ANSWER! All could think was, “What’s the question?” I’d
like to see what would happen if a student, struggling with a
question on the SAT, wrote down the word “Jesus” on the
answer sheet I’m pretty positive that he or she would not
get credit for it (though it might get a laugh). Clearly, Jesus
isn’t the answer to everything.
I get irritated by simplistic answers to matters of faith. They
drive me crazy, and frankly don‘t make much sense to me.
But the bumper sticker did make me wonder a little bit
more about faith. Does faith have easy answers? Is it simple
or complicated? Difficult or easy? Black and white or gray?
A certainty or a great unknown?
http://www.resurrectionwg.org/
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