Comments on: April 23: Awaiting dawn in the darkness http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/ Advent and Lenten devotions by Goshen College students, faculty and staff Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Tony http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1628 Tony Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:48:45 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1628 Nice website and everybody should totally comply with the author on this one here. Its hillarious, thats what i should write about this post. Because this should be what the whole internet thing is all about right? Keep on doing a great job! Website:-http://www.socialkik.com/twitter_promo.html Nice website and everybody should totally comply with the author on this one here. Its hillarious, thats what i should write about this post. Because this should be what the whole internet thing is all about right? Keep on doing a great job!
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]]> By: Starla http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1627 Starla Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:45:25 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1627 Oh, thank you, Justin. Thank you for reminding me in the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that the personal "dark time" I am experiencing is but the cradle of a new chapter of His resurrection life to be manifested in me. Alleluia! Oh, thank you, Justin. Thank you for reminding me in the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that the personal “dark time” I am experiencing is but the cradle of a new chapter of His resurrection life to be manifested in me. Alleluia!

]]> By: Paul George http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1626 Paul George Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:40:05 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1626 Thank you for the devotions Thank you for the devotions

]]> By: Mervyn Carapiet http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1625 Mervyn Carapiet Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:23:17 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1625 Dear Justin, I'm grateful for your message of hope in darkness. By enlightening others we get enlightened too. Can I offer you my little poem written in my darkness? THE SUN HAS SET The sun has set. Our Son has walked into the night, And that night was dark, indeed, Made the more opaque By one man’s treachery That manoeuvred our sinfulness unto his death. Our Son has walked into the night, Laid himself down, And now is still in death. Sleep on, Saviour sweet! Brave Warrior of our freedom’s battle; Hero of our redemption’s drama. Sleep on, dear Son and Brother. Yesterday and today you laboured; A splendid work, indeed, But the weight thereof Has laid you low In a stone sepulchre. Yet take your rest, Tonight and another. Yahweh once rested At the close of the original creation; Why not you On the threshold of the new? So sleep, sweet Prince, And take your rest. Tomorrow and a day will bring the dawn. And with the dawn new life. Then you will be King! For our Son will rise again! Mervyn Carapiet Dear Justin, I’m grateful for your message of hope in darkness. By enlightening others we get enlightened too. Can I offer you my little poem written in my darkness?

THE SUN HAS SET
The sun has set.
Our Son has walked into the night,
And that night was dark, indeed,
Made the more opaque
By one man’s treachery
That manoeuvred our sinfulness unto his death.
Our Son has walked into the night,
Laid himself down,
And now is still in death.
Sleep on, Saviour sweet!
Brave Warrior of our freedom’s battle;
Hero of our redemption’s drama.
Sleep on, dear Son and Brother.
Yesterday and today you laboured;
A splendid work, indeed,
But the weight thereof
Has laid you low
In a stone sepulchre.
Yet take your rest,
Tonight and another.
Yahweh once rested
At the close of the original creation;
Why not you
On the threshold of the new?
So sleep, sweet Prince,
And take your rest.
Tomorrow and a day will bring the dawn.
And with the dawn new life.
Then you will be King!
For our Son will rise again!

Mervyn Carapiet

]]> By: Pastor Melinda Dodge, UMC http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1624 Pastor Melinda Dodge, UMC Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:25:58 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1624 I have been thinking of the very same thing this morning, Justin. Actually every Holy Week, every Holy Saturday, I return to this same place. What did those first disciples do/see/think/hear/feel on the "day after," completely unknowing that a dawn really was to come, that this most painful darkness would not last forever? Given all that our Gospel writers tell us of how often this group of leaders missed the point, could we not imagine that they were caught up in the pain -- and not in the faith or promise that Jesus was preaching during his ministry? That they were truly in a place of seemingly endless mourning without relief or peace in sight? As I type this, I am sitting right now above our sanctuary, listening to our "Worship Team's" ministrations ... setting out the Lilies, preparing the flower cross, returning the paraments. This busy work reminds me that our church today has the knowledge and lives in the Easter promise that followed Holy Saturday. Indeed, God has called us and led us to this very place. But, I am also thinking about how often we assume that we are an Easter people without really living into it ... I wonder how we can help people today really, truly live as Easter people ... and I wonder if part of that isn't helping us all to recall, relive, connect as those first disciples on Holy Saturday? ? Pastor Melinda Southern California, United Methodist Church I have been thinking of the very same thing this morning, Justin. Actually every Holy Week, every Holy Saturday, I return to this same place. What did those first disciples do/see/think/hear/feel on the “day after,” completely unknowing that a dawn really was to come, that this most painful darkness would not last forever? Given all that our Gospel writers tell us of how often this group of leaders missed the point, could we not imagine that they were caught up in the pain — and not in the faith or promise that Jesus was preaching during his ministry? That they were truly in a place of seemingly endless mourning without relief or peace in sight?

As I type this, I am sitting right now above our sanctuary, listening to our “Worship Team’s” ministrations … setting out the Lilies, preparing the flower cross, returning the paraments. This busy work reminds me that our church today has the knowledge and lives in the Easter promise that followed Holy Saturday. Indeed, God has called us and led us to this very place. But, I am also thinking about how often we assume that we are an Easter people without really living into it …

I wonder how we can help people today really, truly live as Easter people … and I wonder if part of that isn’t helping us all to recall, relive, connect as those first disciples on Holy Saturday?

?

Pastor Melinda
Southern California, United Methodist Church

]]> By: Elaine Kauffman http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1623 Elaine Kauffman Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:51:31 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1623 Can't eat. Can't sleep. Can't cry. Can't quite not cry. Numb. Waiting for sundown. Gathering spices and herbs. Numb. Waiting for morning and daylight. Still numb. These I imagine for Saturday. Thanks for highlighting "darkness" as the "cradle of the dawning." Can’t eat. Can’t sleep. Can’t cry. Can’t quite not cry. Numb. Waiting for sundown. Gathering spices and herbs. Numb. Waiting for morning and daylight. Still numb.
These I imagine for Saturday.
Thanks for highlighting “darkness” as the “cradle of the dawning.”

]]> By: marjorie http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1622 marjorie Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:29:53 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1622 Dear Justin, Thank you for beautiful insights about darkness cradling the light. What a deep thinker you are, way beyond your years! You have given so much to think about as darkness surrounds us in this age of war and suffering. Praying for the light of peace to arise. Dear Justin, Thank you for beautiful insights about darkness cradling the light. What a deep thinker you are, way beyond your years! You have given so much to think about as darkness surrounds us in this age of war and suffering. Praying for the light of peace to arise.

]]> By: Charles Longenecker http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1621 Charles Longenecker Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:41:09 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1621 What wonderful hope we have in the great gift of Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Praise to Jesus! Barbara Longenecker wife of Charles Longenecker- same e-mail address What wonderful hope we have in the great gift of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Praise to Jesus! Barbara Longenecker wife of Charles Longenecker- same e-mail address

]]> By: Barbara Johnson http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1620 Barbara Johnson Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:28:35 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1620 well turned words here. well turned words here.

]]> By: Jim Miller (James N. '53) http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/april-23-awaiting-dawn-in-the-darkness/#comment-1619 Jim Miller (James N. '53) Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:06:17 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=1124#comment-1619 Thank you, Justin, for this wise and wonderful and reassuring counsel. May the prayer that you offered us - that darkness will cradle new life in us - be answered and fulfilled for you as well! And on a more global scale, may the darkness now evident in politics and conflict and war become the cradle for the dawn of peace and prosperity and creativity. Yours is one voice that will help to make it so. Thank you, again. Thank you, Justin, for this wise and wonderful and reassuring counsel. May the prayer that you offered us – that darkness will cradle new life in us – be answered and fulfilled for you as well! And on a more global scale, may the darkness now evident in politics and conflict and war become the cradle for the dawn of peace and prosperity and creativity. Yours is one voice that will help to make it so. Thank you, again.

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