Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Therefore hear this, you who are wounded, who are drunk, but not with wine:
Thus says your Sovereign, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people: See, I
have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; you shall drink no more from the bowl of my
wrath.
Linus turns to Charlie Brown and says: "She really hurt your feelings, didn't she, Charlie
Brown? I hope she didn't take all the life out of you..."
Charlie Brown answers: "No, not completely...But you can number me among the walking
wounded!"
Some of us know about the walking wounded, don't we?
It's interesting what Thornton Wilder once said, "The very angels themselves cannot persuade
the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one...broken on the wheel of living. In
Love's service only the wounded soldiers can serve."
It helps when you seek to minster to people who have been knocked down, if you have been
there yourself. Perhaps that is why Christ had to go to the cross. He has been knocked down,
too. Thus he can minister to us in our hour of need. Our role is to minster from our hurt to
others.
(Isaiah 51:21-22
NRSV)
In a PEANUTS cartoon Lucy is berating Charlie Brown. "...And I don't care if I ever see you
again!" she says, "Do you hear me?"
Dear God, may I use the hurts in my life to help those with similarly wounded. Amen.
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