Recklessness

I read this quote on a blog yesterday and it punched me in the gut...so I thought I'd share. We all need a good gut-punching on a regular basis, don't you think? At least I do. I so easily grow weary and even apathetic to the truths of social injustice that I cannot see (or choose not to) on a daily basis. Just because I can't see it in suburban Birmingham doesn't absolve me from my responsibility to love and serve Christ and those He so desperately loves. Here's the quote:

"What, therefore, is our task today? Should I answer: "Faith, hope and love?" That sounds beautiful. But I would say - courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is recklessness. For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature... we lack a holy rage - the recklessness which comes from the knowledge of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth... a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God's earth and the destruction of God's people. To rage when little children must die of hunger, while the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many, and the madness of militaries. To rage against the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction peace. To rage against COMPLACENCY. To restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the Kingdom of God."
-Father Kaj Munk, 1944

I must admit I don't have a clue who Father Kay Munk is, okay? I just love the word "reckless." Most of the time this word conjures up negative thoughts and ideas to me. But when applied to attacking social injustice and loving the weak, poor and oppressed, it sends shivers down my spine. Don't over-think, don't take time to come up with silly excuses, just get busy chasing after Christ and loving people all along the way. Reckless abandon...I like it. Lord, help me live it.

My mom sent me this photo of Eden and her 2 cousins, Savannah and Camp.


What precious blessings from the Lord our children are. Daily I am reminded that every life God creates is equally precious to Him and created to glorify Him...regardless of race, social status, lifestyle, etc. Every barrier that divides us in the world, the Gospel shatters. We are all poor, helpless orphans until the Lord saves us by His grace.

If it was our child starving or dying of AIDS we would be more reckless, wouldn't we? Let us who have been blessed far beyond what we need begin to give like we have never considered before. That is my prayer for our family, and for the whole family of God.