I think not! The lessons of the days of freedom and lasciviousness are order and truth, for sure, but, certainly not stoicism. God is not stoic to our needs. Love. He implores. Committed love, for sure, but love none the less. The love in the church is supposed to equip us to love, in our families. Unfortunately, the church does as much to cause loveless children as the drink or bottle. Go home and spend yourself on your family after church. Go home and sin no more. We gather to worship God and then we return to the garden to tend and to keep it. Do not let your children go without saying I love you, or the hippy generation will return to bite us again and this time with more vengeance.
Ichabod, was the cry of a woman bereft and dying. Where is the glory in a loveless and painfilled life? God is still everywhere is the answer. Where does she see Him? In the life of the body of Christ and the comforts that our God affords. Where is the comfort of God, when anarchy and uncivility reigns? Is its remedy in stoicism? If that is the remedy phoooey on it, I say. I am no judge of it. God is love and if we are busy loving one another in the godly way, we will have no time to love one another in the wanton way. Needs of care and concern are mountainous and we cannot climb them. Give of yourself in your marriage. Me! Give of yourself in your mothering. Me! Get to work on that.
We miss heaven, often, attempting to build cathedrals.
I say, God bless the generation that took that wicked stoicism to task. More souls will be in heaven in penitence, than in pride. Father forgive us!
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