I wrote this back in 2006 - when I started this blog! I found it interesting and decided to post it as it was saved as a draft!
My backdrop is teletubbies very happily proclaiming their happiness and desire for big hugs. My exhausted son lays absorbed by these 4 creatures, drained from several days of moderate to high fevers.
A few Church people have questioned (more literally, judged) the rationale of why we would live in a community in the inner city of Chicago, especially when the young ones get sick. The fact is sickness does come and go with our oldest boy, but I would hereby question whether his colds and fevers come through a genetic predisposition or through the climate and communal living. I would definitely put more emphasis on genetics than the other, due to the fact that relatives also struggle with similiar symptoms and they do not live in the inner city of Chicago!
We often wonder how (the negative) church folk would respond if we were working amongst the poverty stricken millions in Calcutta, I suppose they would proudly proclaim our missionary endeavours to everyone around, and thus, never question the dangers of sickness. But working, as a missionary, amongst the poor in Chicago does not register high on their sainthood totem pole. The matters of missionary work proves to be a very subjective matter.
God has called us to Chicago!
Kierkegaard emphasized that as Christians we love to live a sagacious lifestyle, carefully living safely with complete levelheadedness, thus, denying the need to live in and by faith. We, as human beings, want to secure our own future, again denying us the necessity of faith. Scribes, pharisees and Saduccees lived this way! The question should not be one of personal significance and / or comfort, but the essential desire to DO the will of the Father. When we care more about our own needs, wants and desires than that of loving God and neighbour, we are, in fact, ignoring the essential message that Jesus lived and proclaimed.
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