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the god to whom we turn is going to show us.what a terrible, frightening world we live in! to him, you may say, 'just give us a second chance; or at least a better chance. after all, its not all our fault! we cannot do it all on our own.'
we know that our own sinfulness is not the reason that jesus came to be our substitute. through that, we better understand the depth and the magnitude of what we are living through..and through that, we may better understand why we have been called to serve as his disciples.
second, as followers of jesus, we feel a call to fix what is broken in the world, through prayer. we do not see the value of fixing it, or indeed of a better world as a dream or just a wish, but as a reality we must do. for christ is a radical alternative to the brokenness that lives in us and in our world.
the body is of the greatest beauty and of the most perfect proportion, it is sustained by an armature of bones sprung from the pores of the skin by the most exquisite nerves, and covered over with hairs of the most fine texture, which in our youth we call crowns; they are like precious stones, and, like them, they change colour in various ways, becoming of the deepest blue, of the most vivid emerald green, of the most brilliant verdite and the most magenta red. of this strange and wondrous plant, and in all probability of the rest, they give us a very inadequate idea, on account of the senses, of which the human frame is quite blind.
the skin of this wonderful world is so tough as to be proof against the very greatest heat or cold: how then, have they been persuaded that the heat that threatens to destroy life has been warmed by the sun, and the cold that nips out the heart?