Pilgrim Soldier

Having been pretty busy lately I’ve still haven’t managed to finish Bishop Tom Wright’s Simply Christian, much to my own disappointment.

However, I have to say that I love this man’s writing. He manages to communicate the reality of the Christian faith in such a simple, yet incredibly deep way. This makes him so easy to read, yet you find yourself wrestling with the enormity of the subjects that he is addressing. Wonderful stuff!

This morning I was on my way across Riga on the tram and read the following:

“We are called to live at the overlap both of heaven and earth - the earth that has yet to be fully redeemed as one day it will be - and of God’s future and this world’s present. We are caught on a small island near the point where these tectonic plates, heaven and earth, future and present, are scrunching themselves together. Be ready for earthquakes.”
Simply Christian - pg 138

The symbolism in this is so strong and I can picture myself in that situation because of it.