{"id":22360,"date":"2020-08-07T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/?p=22360"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T22:54:55","slug":"our-humble-complaint-curated-links-aug-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/our-humble-complaint-curated-links-aug-7-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Humble Complaint: Curated Links August 7, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22366\" src=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JulianofNorwich-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"277\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>My kids started school online yesterday. They&#8217;ll be online at least until Labor Day. As this pandemic drags on, and our world seems to be coming unhinged, these words from Dame Julian of Norwich brought some comfort for me the other day (she talks often of Jesus as our \u201cMother,\u201d FYI):<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>We make our humble complaint to our beloved Mother, and he sprinkles us with his precious blood, and makes our soul pliable and tender, and restores us to our full beauty in course of time\u2026 And then the true meaning of those lovely words will be made known to us, \u2018It is all going to be all right. You will see for yourself that everything is going to be all right.\u2019<\/p>\r\n<cite>Dame Julian of Norwich, <em>Revelations of Divine Love<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The 24\/7 news cycle compels us to stay constantly aware of the chaos of our world, but in the midst of this, I&#8217;m trying to follow Julian&#8217;s lead and keep bringing my \u201chumble complaint\u201d to Jesus, my \u201cbeloved Mother,\u201d praying that the future all-rightness of the world will continue to manifest itself in the present, in my relationships and in our world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Here are the curated links for this week. I pray they equip you to engage the world today in faith, hope, and love.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>We had <a href=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/podcast\/finding-grace-when-suffering-lingers-with-k-j-ramsey\/\">a <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/podcast\/finding-grace-when-suffering-lingers-with-k-j-ramsey\/\">beautiful<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/podcast\/finding-grace-when-suffering-lingers-with-k-j-ramsey\/\"> conversation with K.J. Ramsey about suffering and transformation on our podcast this week<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li>I&#8217;m feeling this personally, and apparently it&#8217;s true across the board: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/05\/opinion\/coronavirus-mental-illness-depression.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We\u2019ve Hit a Pandemic Wall: New data show that Americans are suffering from record levels of mental distress<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li>So how to respond to this distress? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/july-web-only\/god-pandemic-nt-wright-coronavirus-aftermath.html?utm_source=ctdirect-html&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_term=31415796&amp;utm_content=725649580&amp;utm_campaign=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"N.T. Wright says the pandemic should make us humble\u2014and relentlessly practical (opens in a new tab)\">N.T. Wright says the pandemic should make us humble\u2014and relentlessly practical<\/a>. (These are the helpful themes he talked with us about <a href=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/podcast\/n-t-wright-on-the-christian-response-to-the-pandemic-and-racism\/\">when we had him on the podcast<\/a>.)<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/racism-among-white-christians-higher-among-nonreligious-s-no-coincidence-ncna1235045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Here's why racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious (opens in a new tab)\">Here&#8217;s why racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious<\/a>. (It&#8217;s not a coincidence.) This calls for repentance.<\/li>\r\n<li>Yesterday was the Feast of the Transfiguration <em>and<\/em> the anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. <a href=\"https:\/\/brianzahnd.com\/2015\/08\/hiroshima-an-anti-transfiguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Brian Zahnd wrote about that connection 5 years ago and it still hits home (opens in a new tab)\">Brian Zahnd wrote about that connection 5 years ago and it still hits home<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li>Finally, my fellow Gravity co-founder (and co-pastor) Matt Tebbe preached a really helpful sermon on Jacob wrestling with God this past Sunday that I wanted to share with y&#8217;all: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetableindy.org\/sermons\/how-god-deals-with-sordid-pasts-and-uncertain-futures\/\">How God Deals With Sordid Pasts and Uncertain Futures<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week. In the midst of the darkness of our current moment, I pray you are able to perceive and behold the bright transfiguring beauty of our King, shining within creation today. I leave you with a Collect for the Transfiguration:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this world, may by faith behold the King in his beauty; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. <\/em><strong><em>Amen.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Grace and peace,<br \/>Ben Sternke (for Gravity Leadership)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>P.S. If you&#8217;d like to get these curated links in your email inbox each week, fill out the form below<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kids started school online yesterday. 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As this pandemic drags on, and our world seems to be coming unhinged, these words from Dame Julian of Norwich brought some comfort for me the other day (she talks often of Jesus as our \u201cMother,\u201d FYI): We make our humble&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lead-like-jesus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Our Humble Complaint: Curated Links August 7, 2020 - Gravity Commons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/our-humble-complaint-curated-links-aug-7-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our Humble Complaint: Curated Links August 7, 2020 - Gravity Commons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My kids started school online yesterday. 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