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This quarter’s studies are on “Philippians and Colossians.”
What are we thankful for, and how should we be praying? Even those aspects of life that appear more substantial and permanent—career, position, family, friends, home—end. Like the wise man we ask ourselves what benefit there is in anything when we discover it’s all just chasing after the wind. Here we see one of Paul’s major emphases in these letters.
We may even forget to even wonder why all this dissatisfaction should be. Why are we not happy in this world? Why do we seek for something more? Why are we looking for answers anyway? What makes us thankful? What drives us to search for meaning and purpose, a sense of something more than what we see and hear and feel? How is it we are so different from every other living thing that never seems to look for more? Why do we want what this world can never give us? Strange…
“Listen to your life,” writes Frederick Buechner. “See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. Touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are sacred moments and life itself is grace.”
Life itself is grace. Only by seeing ourselves as more than a chance formation of random molecules does anything begin to make any kind of sense. Only if our existence has meaning and purpose beyond our immediate selves can we find sanity. Only if life truly is grace is there sense in living and not in ending the meaninglessness.
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