Now its March.
And Lent.
I have about 10 days left in this quarter: 6 papers and 2 presentations to complete. I feel orderly, not in disarray.....but there are still double-digit number of days.
I have been wondering about God. Does God need us? I listened to this Roman Catholic podcast that emphatically said that God doesn't need us. God does not need us to exist.
It frightens me to think that God needs us.
It saddens me to think that God doesn't need us to exist.
Hello....this is God....I love you, unconditionally....but remember, I don't need you to exist.
But then, I came upon this poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer that he wrote to Eberhard Bethge from Tegel prison on July 18, 1944. I'm going to use this is my daily prayer and reflection for Lent.
People go to God in their need,
for help, happiness and bread they plead
for deliverance from sickness, guilt and death.
Thus do they all, Christians and pagans
People go to God in God's need,
find God poor, reviled, with neither shelter nor bread,
see God entangled in sin, weakness, and death.
Christians stand by God in God's suffering.
God comes to all human beings in need,
sates them body and soul with His bread,
dies the death of the cross for Christians and pagans,
and forgives them both.
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