Of all that was done in the past, you eat the fruit,either rotten or ripe
And the Church must be forever building, and always decaying, and always being restored.
TS Eliot
Sometimes when I ponder the earth, creation, and people in general, I wonder if restoration was hard wired into us when God first created us in the Garden. Or was it something he intended/started after the Fall. Things like grass, which Planet Earth recently told me is the fastest regenerating living thing on earth. It is destroyed, and is rebuilt, more frequently than any other living thing. We see this pretty clearly out in the fields, which were only burned last weekend, yet little green shoots are all over the place.
And with people...we want to be restored. We want others to be in right relationships with us, and it is always so satisfying to forgive, or to be reconciled to one another.
Is this original design? Or something God built in after the fall?
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We have those videos too - I think it might be awesome to show a clip from that section, or maybe the desert/plains flood section, as part of our restoration night.
I think nature is a giant metaphor for our spiritual lives. Restoration is a beautiful thing - yet it only exists because of ugly things. So, I can't help but feel that somehow God had this whole plan in place the entire time.
OH! I love that flood scene! Can you bring it in? I don't own the dvds, I get them from the library.
~H
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