2 Corinthians 3:12
Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness,
Boldness
Borne out of hope
What does that look like?
Is it like picking up a megaphone
in the pedestrian precinct
to tell folks they’re going to hell?
Or is it like taking a peek behind the altar
to see what the priest keeps stashed there?
Maybe it’s sidling into a pew without genuflecting
the holy statues are covered up just now - maybe Jesus can’t see either
Or maybe it’s practising the quiet belief
that holding one view does not exclude another
that ambivalence is possible in a complex world
Not just possible
but necessary if peace has any chance
of breaking out
Now that’s an audacious hope.
That’s what boldness looks like.
(Liz Crumlish Lent 2024)
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