Spiritual Soccer: Not Everything is Fixable
Publication Date
1-29-2008
Publication
The Christian Century
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Over time, I have learned to remain open to God’s grace as a check against cynicism. The miracles of the fall of the Berlin Wall and South Africa’s peaceful transition to democracy after apartheid have taught me not to underestimate the prospects for miracles from God—in large social systems as well as in personal relationships. I wish that my older friend, years ago, had acknowledged this possibility.
Reconciliation is less something we achieve than it is space we help create that allows God’s grace to move. Our task is to tend the soil in which reconciliation can blossom—in God’s time rather than ours.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Gregory, "Spiritual Soccer: Not Everything is Fixable" (2008). Public Intellectual Writing. 104.
https://repository.belmont.edu/gregoryjones_public/104
