{"id":6520,"date":"2010-01-13T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/13\/a-thought-on-haiti\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:27:05","slug":"a-thought-on-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/13\/a-thought-on-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thought on Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Haiti-10727.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Haiti-thumb-333x133-10727.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"133\" alt=\"Haiti.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\"><\/a><\/span>Last night I read this from Randy Harris, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0891126287?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0891126287\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">God Work \u2013 Confessions of a Standup Theologian:<\/a><img><br><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0\n<blockquote><p><em>One of the things we do as Christians is to try to pay attention to what God might be able to do in the world, especially with the broken places in our lives. These aren\u2019t good things. They generally aren\u2019t things God does to us. This Romans passage [chp 8] says God can crawl in the middle of it because he works in all things and nothing can stand in the way of God reconciling all things to himself. \u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u00a0We have to believe and live out the reality that God is taking things somewhere and that nothing can stop it. And our task then is to join God in his reconciling work that that he began before creation. \u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>So we join God in what he\u2019s trying to do in the world.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal\"><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>I make no claim to know what God is doing in Haiti, but I do know that God\u2019s intent is to reconcile all things to himself and so, in prayer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haitipartners.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>in giving to relief efforts like that of Haiti Partners<\/b><\/a>,\u00a0and in mobilizing humans to help the suffering of Haiti, we commit ourselves to enter now into the work of binding up the brokenhearted and healing the wounded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May we crawl, with God, into this rubble and be the presence of God, bring the presence of God, and lead Haiti into the healing presence of God.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I read this from Randy Harris, God Work \u2013 Confessions of a Standup Theologian: \u00a0 One of the things we do as Christians is to try to pay attention to what God might be able to do in the world, especially with the broken places in our lives. 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