Comments on: Diary of a Country Priest http://growmercy.org/2007/11/25/diary-of-a-country-priest/ Mercifully gumming up the scapegoating mechanism Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Stephen Thomas Berg http://growmercy.org/2007/11/25/diary-of-a-country-priest/comment-page-1/#comment-19532 Stephen Thomas Berg Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:02:18 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2007/11/25/diary-of-a-country-priest/#comment-19532 Connie, I love the idea of grace in the spaces. And...it's a necessary idea. Rose, Thought for a moment you meant George Bernanos...now that would have been a YouTube curiosity. I think he died in the 40's. Connie, I love the idea of grace in the spaces. And…it’s a necessary idea.

Rose, Thought for a moment you meant George Bernanos…now that would have been a YouTube curiosity. I think he died in the 40′s.

]]> By: Rose http://growmercy.org/2007/11/25/diary-of-a-country-priest/comment-page-1/#comment-19530 Rose Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:43:26 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2007/11/25/diary-of-a-country-priest/#comment-19530 Have you heard him speak? Stumbled upon him on.... anyone? anyone? Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoPcn7g0OVA&feature=related Have you heard him speak?

Stumbled upon him on…. anyone? anyone?
Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoPcn7g0OVA&feature=related

]]> By: connie http://growmercy.org/2007/11/25/diary-of-a-country-priest/comment-page-1/#comment-19527 connie Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:30:43 +0000 http://growmercy.org/2007/11/25/diary-of-a-country-priest/#comment-19527 "far more than I know, I am my relationships"....my morning brain is thinking that this must be why, though we try so hard to shed the past, and though we aspire to strong independence, we still respond so quickly and so persistently to others.....when relationships are empty or sterile or judgmental or draining or pitying or abusive or condescending, I take that in more than I think I will, and it can, literally, stay, and stay, and stay.....which is why I like the idea of grace, and have had to reject the idea of atonement theology, and no longer believe one hinges on the other. Grace, I have to believe, just is, like air just is, and lives in the spaces between us -- or not, depending on the spaces we find ourselves in. “far more than I know, I am my relationships”….my morning brain is thinking that this must be why, though we try so hard to shed the past, and though we aspire to strong independence, we still respond so quickly and so persistently to others…..when relationships are empty or sterile or judgmental or draining or pitying or abusive or condescending, I take that in more than I think I will, and it can, literally, stay, and stay, and stay…..which is why I like the idea of grace, and have had to reject the idea of atonement theology, and no longer believe one hinges on the other. Grace, I have to believe, just is, like air just is, and lives in the spaces between us — or not, depending on the spaces we find ourselves in.

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