Wednesday, March 4, 2009

The Suffering of God

Search the Scriptures,
for in them you will find
this God of the loveless,
this God of Mercy, Love and Justice,
who weeps over these her children,
these her precious ones who have been carried from the womb,
who gathers up her young upon her wings
and rides along the high places of the earth,
who sees their suffering
and cries out like a woman in travail,
who gasps and pants;
for with this God,
any injustice that befalls one of these precious ones
is never the substance
of rational reflection and critical analysis,
but is the source
of a catastrophic convulsion within the very life of God.

Karen Drescher

in The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective
By Terence Fretheim
(Opening Pages)

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