tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997948737327924359.post342451426789654465..comments2023-11-02T05:44:49.653-04:00Comments on If Beth had a blog: MLK & Happy MourningBethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11534519354546424765noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997948737327924359.post-85368301796581991452014-01-20T16:29:32.393-05:002014-01-20T16:29:32.393-05:00Melissa, Wow. What a wonderful and humbling comm...Melissa, Wow. What a wonderful and humbling comment. Life and all it brings us has a funny way of teaching, eh? One of the things I love about the privilege of wrestling with these texts is the new eyes I'm given at different times and stages of my life. The Good News is always, somehow, new news. Grateful, BethBethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11534519354546424765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997948737327924359.post-67668175232081010942014-01-20T16:08:07.119-05:002014-01-20T16:08:07.119-05:00As a person who has spent a good portion of last y...As a person who has spent a good portion of last year mourning, I found this blog provacitive. <br /><br />It made me stop to think about Dr. King and standing on the plains of Moab and my own reaction to the joy showed by Dr. King in beging called to work for God.<br /><br />I did my own work on this text in semminary- and to be honest it did not offer any comfort-- I did not want the blessing of seeing the things that could be in the things that were not. It never felt like a blessing to me. I railed against this text and made it my goal to find something other than what I had learned-- to hold on to- becasue my other reaction was to throw it away!<br /><br />Now-- in years removed and life lived and new "mournings by mournings" I have seen- maybe I have gained wisdom or maybe I have found the blessings.<br /><br />Your blog touched on those blessing in a concrete way for the first time ever in my life of reading scripture with a critial eye.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing!<br />MelissaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com