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まことのいのちを得るために…
……so that they may TAKE HOLD OF THE LIFE THAT IS TRULY LIFE.
(第一テモテ6章18節 写真はミルトスの花)

MEMO:Sojournersより

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 In some ways, the modern project that is America has always been a bit like the gifted child who is told she can do anything, be anything ― that she is different, special, unique among her peers. Even when it becomes clear that our darling will never be a ballerina or a veterinarian, we continue to feed her ego and her false hopes.
 In the community of nations, America has historically been the precocious youngster no one could refuse ― or speak the truth to. The fact that the U.S. also had wealth (i.e. power) contributed to her popularity and irresistibility. (Who doesn’t want to be friends with the pretty girl with lots of money?)
 But maybe we’re growing up. Maybe we’re about to get real. Maybe we’re realizing just how ridiculous we’ve looked for so long, carrying on as if we’re still the adored, special child when everyone else has known for a long time that we are ordinary ― valuable and vital, yes, but ordinary.

 Growing up means we will have to acknowledge that the highly-prized “American Way of Life” was always unsustainable and unjust ― epic folly. …

 This truth is painful to hear but necessary if we are going to see our way out of the messes we have made and the lies we have lived ― if we are going to do the work of repentance, which literally means to turn around and go in a different direction.

 We will grieve as we leave our childhood behind, not because we wish to return to it but because of our growing awareness of the responsibility we forsook while inhabiting it. Such grief can heal since it is not a sign of weakness but of growth and maturity. It is an act of profound humility. And such humility can be, for a grown-up America, the beginning of wisdom. 

 

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