I waited a few weeks to post this. As an avid reader of history I am still unsure of my footing here. Moreover, I always hesitate to post anything that someone might take as "political". I assure you that there is not overt or covert "political" opinion here and I am not trying to persuade. As always my goal is to expose my heart in a way that, perhaps, might be helpful to others so we can all strive and struggle together. With that in mind:
Curt Lovegren came into the office on May 2nd and of course the chatter around the water cooler was all about the death of Osama Bin Laden. We had just heard Pastor Les revisit his "trees" analogy and he had been thinking about "living out of the tree of life". As we chatted he asked me, "How do you reconcile this event - this killing - with the tree of life. I mean it's difficult not to feel good about it, but surely that sense of justice is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?" That got me thinking....
Entries for month: May 2011
Reflections on the Death of an Enemy
Posted by Mark Kruger