https://anglicanjournal.com/a-wilderness-of-separation/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:23:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/a-wilderness-of-separation/#comment-31808 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 23:16:46 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162919#comment-31808 Beautifully written and very insightful. I love this quote the best: “…we must take that extra step in our imaginings around Lent and come to see the side of the desert we have created. When we enter into that wilderness of human pain, this worldly desert, we see many who are already there, waiting for us. They walk in suffering because no one has called or whispered a prayer on their behalf, and escape seems beyond their reach. It’s not that those trapped in a wilderness of isolation don’t want out—it’s because we, in our societies and structures, have created too many situations in which there’s no turning back. We’ve reshaped our world from a place created for everything to breathe into one where some must suffocate—with systems where success and belonging are scarce, available only to the chosen few. For many, this is a desert of no life, no moisture—with only fleeting moments of hope, here and then gone again. But there is reason for hope. Our Lord knew this wilderness, and He endured it in order to become a complete servant for His beloved people.“ Quite stunning word pictures. Thank you.

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