Unchecked, and fueled by the cancer of our sinful nature, our strengths turn upon us too, making our lives lives of spiritual civil war. I wish I could say there is some easy fix to this dilemma. But like most of the paradoxes I've tried to describe to you in chapels over the course of two years, this one too does not submit to easy solutions. I think the tension, the paradox, between recognizing, affirming, and exercising our strengths, while avoiding the dangers they pose, is a tension we must all face every day of our lives. It is in fact the very stuff of life that we must grapple with this dilemma from youth to old age and even to death.
Spring is the season of hope.
So let us remain alert. All rights reserved.