It Will Not Be As It Was! A Theology of Hope
It’s been too long since I’ve shared one of my quotes from my inspirational quote book! This one is from Ezekiel: It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted shall be brought low. Ezekiel 21:26 Sometimes I feel really lowly, like I should be ashamed of myself, even when I have done nothing wrong. In fact, after my meltdown last week I struggled with some feelings of shame for several days. Some fundamentalist, conservative religious people would say that that is a logical, natural feeling for human beings to have because of original sin. We should all feel ashamed, because we, as humans, inherited a depraved nature when Adam and Eve first sinned. These people would say that women especially are depraved, since it was Eve who first sinned. This is bullsh*t. I believe we feel ashamed when we are afraid to own our own goodness. As Marianne Williamson says, “It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.” It’s easy to say that w