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Irish Grace
Posted by Wallace+
In today's Word from Grace Street, I quote from Bono's Sunday New York Times column "In Ireland, Tuesday's Grace." I recommend it highly. Bono may be a rock star, but he's also a real-world theologian. (As I've written before, after all, we are all theologians.) Along with the line I borrowed for today's Word from Grace Street, the following excerpts from the column also stood out to me:
Healing is kind of a corny word but it's peculiarly appropriate here; wounds don't easily heal if they are not out in the open.
It's not just the Devil who's in the details...God, it turns out, is in there too.
Things are quick to change for the worse and slow to change for the better, but they can. They really can.
Journalist John F. Burns also put it well in a story in Sunday's New York Times, where he says,
[T]his was an act of reconciliation to be listed alongside Hirohito at Arlington, F.W. de Klerk at Nelson Mandela's presidential inauguration and other penitents throughout the ages.
Indeed, examples for us all, as we carry on Christ's ministry of reconciliation in a world in need of healing and hope.
Pictured: "Generations," photo of a boy playing soccer at the location of bloody sunday with a mural remembering that day behind him. Photo available from stock.xchng.
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