Thinking Outside the Box

I felt a little embarrassed when I presented to Sister Linda my analysis with Richard Rohr. She agreed that there are indeed good points he discussed and what have been teaching in our faith. Nevertheless perhaps I  stick on the teaching too much and did not get out of the box that I insist my own belief on the matter. Well it is forgivable since it has been the notion for common people like me that it is the will of God that Christ has been crucified. Nevertheless I felt that I'm on the verge of thinking outside the box if only I choose the first argument I have  in my head that is God is mighty and that is enough to save us. Well as it clearly stated by Sr. Linda, God does not need to come down but He did out of His love and that is enough to save us because He indeed showed us the way even in the brief of  three years in His ministry. We are even finding it hard to follow Him. How much more if He stayed longer. I was caught off guard again by stressing the prophecies in the bible (in Isaiah, Psalms, etc.) about the destiny of Jesus being crucified. And so Sr. Linda finally explained what it means to be a prophet. And that is to uphold the truth -- which is the message. Prophecy is not really about foretelling the future but witnessing to the message of the Lord. I then conclude that we are indeed all prophets especially those who are serving Him since everyone has been giving messages of His love and compassion. Well Richard Rohr is indeed a brilliant man with good ideas inside his head though there are things that still not accepted. Not because we judged the people especially the homosexuals but surely to uphold the what we called Pro-Creation and that is the basis of having a family and  marriage.

As I prayed that night, I felt so loved by God still that He chose to be one of us just to show us the way and what happened to Him when He came down brought me to tears. It was a very cruel world indeed that He has to die for us in a way so humiliating and horrible. And that is the price of loving us.. I'm also grateful to learn that on the question if He is destined to be crucified or not is simply we do not know the answer. What we sure of is that He have shown the love that nobody can ever give but only Him. There are many things in this world that don't have definite answer. For simply His ways are not our ways.