PRAYING FOR MY BELOVED CRC MEMBERS & CALVIN COLLEGE et al to NOT ACQUIESCE TO FAR-LEFT LIBERALISM TO TRY TO BE ‘COOL’:

JESUS SAID: “I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

And for their sakes ..."

Friday, December 11, 2015

NEW FROM CRC's TOM POST: " Beauty and Bombs"

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I got to know Tom & his wife Melva in Costa Rica in 1991 when I arrived to do disaster relief after the big earthquake. He started out in the peace corp in Belize, then married a young Belizean gal (Melva), and later became a CRC missionary, and then the CRWRC (world renew) central America director; and he seems to keep moving around the world,  truly a man of the world, but hopefully not a worldly man,  who keeps coming back "home" to grand rapids & belize, as far as I know.
tpost posted: "   Fear seems to reign, at least it's pretty strong right now in the United States.   It seems to me that the flip side of fear is often anger and violence.  That violence can ravage beautiful places in this earth.   Then the  land suffers for the "

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Beauty and Bombs

by tpost

Bombs of War Lined Up In Loas 40 Years Late

Bombs of War Lined Up In Laos 40 Years Later

 

Fear seems to reign, at least it's pretty strong right now in the United States.   It seems to me that the flip side of fear is often anger and violence.  That violence can ravage beautiful places in this earth.   Then the  land suffers for the sins of  humanity.

Yet, there is great and mysterious beauty.   And, we say, sometimes with mustard seed-like faith: "God is good."  Yet, the nagging wonder question persists for me: How can the world contain such ugliness and such beauty in the same world?

I share these pictures of the sovenir bomb casings in Laos---reminders of the American bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos;  and Lake Michigan at sunset in November.  These seem to touch our fear-torn reality,  longing for peace, and  to be surprised by hope.

 

 

Lake Michigan In November

Lake Michigan In November

 

tpost | December 11, 2015 at 9:23 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p25mm3-gn

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u will be saved." 

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