http://growmercy.org/2007/09/20/mortality-occupied/ Mercifully gumming up the scapegoating mechanism Fri, 18 May 2012 16:34:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://growmercy.org/2007/09/20/mortality-occupied/comment-page-1/#comment-17425 Jeff Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:46:27 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2007/09/20/mortality-occupied/#comment-17425 OK. It’s time for an online exorcism! Enough with this death-talk. As Christians, we’re called to focus on the positive. And that’s why my spirit responds to the new station that’s coming soon, right here in Edmonton – the Crossroads Television System. Hooray for David Mainse! Once again he’s lighting our path with positive, values-based programming, not the down in the dumps, clutching mortality vibe I’m picking up these days from Grow Mercy. No. This is television you can believe in. We’ll be able to watch programs like Laverne and Shirley (always a values-based favorite in my books). Ministry content sparkles with Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and James Robison, and dozens of others. Ask me if I care that Benny and Ken both got an “F” grade from MinistryWatch for their lack of financial transparency. Or that Ken asked supporters to fund his new $20 million private jet that makes ministry stops in Maui, Honolulu and Fiji. Or that Benny lives in a $5.8 million mansion. Whoop-de-doo that James Robison is a regular advisor to Dubya. At least these guys focus on “life” and its abundance. Perhaps we could see more of this kind of thinking in Grow Mercy. To this end, a virtual sprinkling of miracle water has now been applied to your site. You’re welcome. OK. It’s time for an online exorcism! Enough with this death-talk. As Christians, we’re called to focus on the positive. And that’s why my spirit responds to the new station that’s coming soon, right here in Edmonton – the Crossroads Television System. Hooray for David Mainse! Once again he’s lighting our path with positive, values-based programming, not the down in the dumps, clutching mortality vibe I’m picking up these days from Grow Mercy. No. This is television you can believe in. We’ll be able to watch programs like Laverne and Shirley (always a values-based favorite in my books). Ministry content sparkles with Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and James Robison, and dozens of others. Ask me if I care that Benny and Ken both got an “F” grade from MinistryWatch for their lack of financial transparency. Or that Ken asked supporters to fund his new $20 million private jet that makes ministry stops in Maui, Honolulu and Fiji. Or that Benny lives in a $5.8 million mansion. Whoop-de-doo that James Robison is a regular advisor to Dubya. At least these guys focus on “life” and its abundance. Perhaps we could see more of this kind of thinking in Grow Mercy. To this end, a virtual sprinkling of miracle water has now been applied to your site. You’re welcome.

]]> http://growmercy.org/2007/09/20/mortality-occupied/comment-page-1/#comment-17421 Sam Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:36:58 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2007/09/20/mortality-occupied/#comment-17421 Someone I was talking to once said, after a spiritual awakening which freed him from some great anxieties, "It would be okay to die now." Having faced this great fear, he was now ready to live. Someone I was talking to once said, after a spiritual awakening which freed him from some great anxieties, “It would be okay to die now.” Having faced this great fear, he was now ready to live.

]]> http://growmercy.org/2007/09/20/mortality-occupied/comment-page-1/#comment-17402 connie Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:04:31 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2007/09/20/mortality-occupied/#comment-17402 Our resistance to mortality surely is a shackle, and never more so than when we’re seriously ill, wasting what bit of vitality we might have left on hazy drug-induced denial rather than leaning into the inevitable...it seems almost a sacred mind-set in our culture to view death as the ultimate enemy, but I think a walking-death is infinitely more frightening, and that death can in fact be merciful…(and hope the universe will be merciful to me someday)….and I think you’re right (if I accurately understood what you said!)—life can be more fully lived when held less tightly. (and if I totally missed your point, oops, and use more common, less poetic words next time for my little brain.) Our resistance to mortality surely is a shackle, and never more so than when we’re seriously ill, wasting what bit of vitality we might have left on hazy drug-induced denial rather than leaning into the inevitable…it seems almost a sacred mind-set in our culture to view death as the ultimate enemy, but I think a walking-death is infinitely more frightening, and that death can in fact be merciful…(and hope the universe will be merciful to me someday)….and I think you’re right (if I accurately understood what you said!)—life can be more fully lived when held less tightly. (and if I totally missed your point, oops, and use more common, less poetic words next time for my little brain.)

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