Comments on: The Primal Scream http://www.blakeatwood.com/2010/03/01/the-primal-scream/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: God Screams With Us: Relevant Magazine Online | BlakeAtwood.com http://www.blakeatwood.com/2010/03/01/the-primal-scream/comment-page-1/#comment-1747 God Screams With Us: Relevant Magazine Online | BlakeAtwood.com Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:25:14 +0000 http://www.blakeatwood.com/?p=1504#comment-1747 [...] [Adapted and expanded from this post: The Primal Scream] [...] [...] [Adapted and expanded from this post: The Primal Scream] [...]

]]> By: alison http://www.blakeatwood.com/2010/03/01/the-primal-scream/comment-page-1/#comment-848 alison Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:57:00 +0000 http://www.blakeatwood.com/?p=1504#comment-848 wow. this made me shudder. wow. this made me shudder.

]]> By: katie http://www.blakeatwood.com/2010/03/01/the-primal-scream/comment-page-1/#comment-780 katie Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:09:37 +0000 http://www.blakeatwood.com/?p=1504#comment-780 ... This gives me a lot to think about. … This gives me a lot to think about.

]]> By: Uncle Jim http://www.blakeatwood.com/2010/03/01/the-primal-scream/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Uncle Jim Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:21:40 +0000 http://www.blakeatwood.com/?p=1504#comment-743 It is the same sound still running as the background noise of the universe, the left-overs of the "Big Bang" when God said, "Let there be light." It is the same sword that pierced Mary's heart so many times on her son's journey from birth to mission to dying and to being raised. It is the same overwhelming power spoken from the cross, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." It is the same shout--scream if you will to follow your image--spoken by two angels in a tomb. "He is not here. He is risen." It is all the same pain and sorrow and love and joy there can ever be in creation and in each of our lives. And that is precisely where our hope lies, in all things, in joy and in grief. In all things from the beginning, God has only and forever wanted to love us and for us to love God in return. And the pain of our rejection can be heard there as well as the joy of our faith in action for Christ's sake in the world. Unc PS: Keep this up, nephew. You are getting there for sure. It is the same sound still running as the background noise of the universe, the left-overs of the “Big Bang” when God said, “Let there be light.”

It is the same sword that pierced Mary’s heart so many times on her son’s journey from birth to mission to dying and to being raised.

It is the same overwhelming power spoken from the cross, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”

It is the same shout–scream if you will to follow your image–spoken by two angels in a tomb. “He is not here. He is risen.”

It is all the same pain and sorrow and love and joy there can ever be in creation and in each of our lives. And that is precisely where our hope lies, in all things, in joy and in grief.

In all things from the beginning, God has only and forever wanted to love us and for us to love God in return. And the pain of our rejection can be heard there as well as the joy of our faith in action for Christ’s sake in the world.

Unc

PS: Keep this up, nephew. You are getting there for sure.

]]> By: admin http://www.blakeatwood.com/2010/03/01/the-primal-scream/comment-page-1/#comment-742 admin Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:17:00 +0000 http://www.blakeatwood.com/?p=1504#comment-742 Thanks for sharing that too. That kind of loss is unimaginable to me, and you had/have every right to question why things like that happen on earth. I read a chapter last night in Mason's book, The Gospel According to Job, that inspired this post. It may be prove helpful to you as well: <em>"There are times when the Lord is actually honored and glorified by our anger at Him, in ways that He may not be by an attitude of unruffled 'trust.' Job provides a healthy balance to the traditional picture of the bloodless, gutless, cheerfully suffering saint. At the very least, anger means that we are taking God seriously and treating Him as a real person - real enough to arouse our passions. Angry prayer is not to be recommended as a steady diet, perhaps, but it is certainly preferable to lip-service prayer. Doesn't artificiality in relationships belie a far greater hostility than the honest expression of deep emotion? In the prim and proper prayer lives of many devout folk, a good old-fashioned temper tantrum might be one of the best things that could happen. In the courts of Heaven there is a place for the primal scream." - The Gospel According to Job, pg. 176</em> Thanks for sharing that too. That kind of loss is unimaginable to me, and you had/have every right to question why things like that happen on earth. I read a chapter last night in Mason’s book, The Gospel According to Job, that inspired this post. It may be prove helpful to you as well:

“There are times when the Lord is actually honored and glorified by our anger at Him, in ways that He may not be by an attitude of unruffled ‘trust.’ Job provides a healthy balance to the traditional picture of the bloodless, gutless, cheerfully suffering saint. At the very least, anger means that we are taking God seriously and treating Him as a real person – real enough to arouse our passions. Angry prayer is not to be recommended as a steady diet, perhaps, but it is certainly preferable to lip-service prayer. Doesn’t artificiality in relationships belie a far greater hostility than the honest expression of deep emotion? In the prim and proper prayer lives of many devout folk, a good old-fashioned temper tantrum might be one of the best things that could happen. In the courts of Heaven there is a place for the primal scream.”
- The Gospel According to Job, pg. 176

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