"If I am to continue to be a living human being, someone must come to free me.... This we cannot accept. We do not want grace. Fundamentally what we want is self-justification." - Jacques Ellul
HA! "Karen, you say, how can you call this an inspirational essay? It’s all too much! The future looks too bleak!" You got that right, sister!
I'm so glad you also stopped "kicking against the goads." You are inspirational for me; to read of your journey back, in whatever form it has taken. I'm only sorry it has taken these extremes of our current rebellion for me to understand how helpless we (I) are to save ourselves, and how desperately we need our Savior. I wish I wasn't so slow to understand.
I do enjoy your long form essays; I get lost in them and I learn from you. I read one the other day in N.S. Lyons' 'stack (https://substack.com/inbox/post/84717234 - check it out, I'm sure you'll add him to your reading list) that took me hours to understand. I don't always have time for reading books (if that's not the stupidest thing I've ever said...) but can spend time with yours and others' essays, and I'm grateful to you, proudly share, and happily support you.
Keep writing, sister!
HA! "Karen, you say, how can you call this an inspirational essay? It’s all too much! The future looks too bleak!" You got that right, sister!
I'm so glad you also stopped "kicking against the goads." You are inspirational for me; to read of your journey back, in whatever form it has taken. I'm only sorry it has taken these extremes of our current rebellion for me to understand how helpless we (I) are to save ourselves, and how desperately we need our Savior. I wish I wasn't so slow to understand.
I do enjoy your long form essays; I get lost in them and I learn from you. I read one the other day in N.S. Lyons' 'stack (https://substack.com/inbox/post/84717234 - check it out, I'm sure you'll add him to your reading list) that took me hours to understand. I don't always have time for reading books (if that's not the stupidest thing I've ever said...) but can spend time with yours and others' essays, and I'm grateful to you, proudly share, and happily support you.
We can't have you being another starving artist!
Love it, agree and have for a long time ..will share