This post is not about cancer, but these thoughts from Ann Voskamp's blog post today jumped off the page at me and I have to share them somewhere. You are my audience. :)
Don’t we all need a reference letter from the poor when we meet Christ?
Don’t we need to learn how bend and sacrifice and know the Cross-formed life?
Don’t we need the poor to really see?
That is the insidious danger of wealth — that it makes you blind. Blind to the hungry Christ and the thirsty Christ and the suffering Christ in humanity. Affluence can anesthetize you to God and belongings can blind you to Christ and isn’t this why it’s hard for the rich to enter heaven – blind and visionless to Christ?
Jesus’ life, it was a cruciform life, a cross-shaped life, from beginning to end, and those who claim Christ aren’t only saved by a crucified Savior – their lives are shaped by the crucified Savior.
The cross isn’t some cheap wooden imitation of our faith — but the exact way the faithful embody the life of Christ.
Because the cross is the key to life — and it’s resurrected in the midst of the poor and the oppressed and the suffering. And when we don’t see the suffering, when we don’t stand in solidarity with the suffering, when we don’t surround our lives with the suffering – we never form our life like our Savior’s.
A Word-shaped life is not a wealth-shaped life but a cross-shaped life.
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