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"The sufferer himself must find a way to express and identify his/her suffering; it is not sufficient to have someone speak on his/her behalf. If people cannot speak about their affliction they will be destroyed by it, or swallowed up by apathy...Without the capacity to communicate with others there can be no change. To become speechless, to be totally without any relationship, that is death."
"The Psalms can be divided into Pslams of Orientation and Psalms of Disorientation. It is curious that the Church, in a world that is increasingly experienced as disorientated, continues to sing almost exclusively songs of orientation... It is my judgement that this action is less an evangelical defiance guided by faith, and much more a frightened, numb denial and deception that does not want to acknowledge or experience the disorientation of life. The reason for such relentless affirmation of orientation seems to come, not from faith, but from the wishful optimism of our culture.... a church that goes on singing 'happy songs' in the face of raw reality is doing something very different from what the Bible itself does." - When Heaven is Silent - Ron Dunn.
I think I am just going to quote from that book the whole of this week. This book keeps me sane. I type this out for me, and possibly Frost ;)
26th of April is a hard, breathtakingly painful day. And it's fast aproaching the third one I would have lived through. It gets no easier, and I find no more peace or "orientation" within it. And I refuse to become speechless about it.
Happy things today include, geting some funfun pictures off the lovely Amy! Gonna have some fun scrapping those. Walking to the sounds of Dave Matthews Band. Recieving another prettypretty blank journal from Frank. Talking to Frost and Jess'ca on the phone.
"The Psalms can be divided into Pslams of Orientation and Psalms of Disorientation. It is curious that the Church, in a world that is increasingly experienced as disorientated, continues to sing almost exclusively songs of orientation... It is my judgement that this action is less an evangelical defiance guided by faith, and much more a frightened, numb denial and deception that does not want to acknowledge or experience the disorientation of life. The reason for such relentless affirmation of orientation seems to come, not from faith, but from the wishful optimism of our culture.... a church that goes on singing 'happy songs' in the face of raw reality is doing something very different from what the Bible itself does." - When Heaven is Silent - Ron Dunn.
I think I am just going to quote from that book the whole of this week. This book keeps me sane. I type this out for me, and possibly Frost ;)
26th of April is a hard, breathtakingly painful day. And it's fast aproaching the third one I would have lived through. It gets no easier, and I find no more peace or "orientation" within it. And I refuse to become speechless about it.
Happy things today include, geting some funfun pictures off the lovely Amy! Gonna have some fun scrapping those. Walking to the sounds of Dave Matthews Band. Recieving another prettypretty blank journal from Frank. Talking to Frost and Jess'ca on the phone.