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Great synthesis – from my brother-in-law, Tim Barton.

To worship is to give honor, reverence, and worth-ship to God.

God doesn’t come to worship us; we come to worship God.

I wonder . . .

In a day when mental health is featured, how was this featured years ago.

We had asylums that provided care for the extreme.  We had mother figures that told us when we were out of line (and somehow maintained a “caring” composure).  We had jobs that had strict rules to give guidance on right and wrong.  We had peer pressure to put us in line.  It was all about the “common good” – probably better labelled the culture’s mores and the enforcement thereof.

At least, that’s the stereotype.  We were also told to climb the ladder to self-actualization.  We were led to be rebels, to find our own person.  We were to become who we deeply felt/desired/knew we should be.

Mentally we placed the definition and control of right and wrong on our own shoulders. 

Instead of on an outside standard, determined by trusted others!

The term faith was passed to the back of the bus.  Meanwhile, the driver of the bus became us.

And we didn’t know the road, or the engine, or the passengers, or the causes of route failure.

We were trying to drive while trying to figure out how to drive, while having to ask ourselves how to drive when we weren’t experienced in driving.

Seems to me like a formula for the failure of our mental capacities?  And a few other capacities??

Out of the week’s end.  Into a new day.

This day has new restrictions and new hopes.  The rules are towards thriving and surviving.

But that is not how some have come to understand the rules. 

Or so yesterday’s parking lot chatter revealed.  The people, socially distanced, talked of the impoverishment of social distance, of the contradictions within rules, and of the desire for an end to suffering.

And so I look out my upper floor window this morning, awaiting the sunrise.

This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it!

“Regardless or irregardless”.

OK, in relation to holiness – there is the transcendent part to God that says we will never fully understand God nor be like God.  We call this being holy!  And yes, being holy in relation to God and people means that a core discussion of God’s attributes starts with a bubble we call holiness.

As we peer through that bubble, we see so much more of the mixture and melting of who God is.  In that sense, is holiness an attribute or merely a description?

We also define holiness as the moral side of life.  That refers more to following a path of rightness – that reflects a holy God.  I wonder if that is then governed by a God who is love (and many other things) before we talk about the activities of holiness?