Reflections on Bishop Curry’s Book from Stacy
Over the last few weeks, five members of our Little Fork Community have gathered to read and study Bishop Curry’s Book, Love is the Way, we have each agreed to share a quote and a few thoughts about it in the eNews.
From Rev. Stacy:
Quotes from the Book:
Ingredient One: Tradition
Think about tradition for a second. I don’t mean a dusty old attic filled with stuff from the past. I mean tapping the time-tested wisdom of ancestors, a spiritual lineage of wisdom for living. (pg. 59)
Ingredient Two: Imagination
Somebody once said that problems are solutions in disguise. While that may be oversimplified, I think Grandma got that, too. She was an expert at what psychologists today might call “reframing.” (pg. 60)
Ingredient 3: God
When God is factored into the equation of life, the outcome changes. It has to. My mother was a mathematician. So is my sister. She got the math gene. I didn’t, but I do remember this much from high school algebra: In any equation, if you alter one of the factors or variables, you alter the outcome of the equation . . . When God – that loving benevolence behind creation, whose judgment supersedes all else – is factored into the reality of life and living, something changes for the good. (pg. 65)