To our great detriment, we’ve exchanged
with
.
The Heroic Journey has mutated from:
• Sacrificing for the sake of your children’s
• Sacrificing for the sake of your
• Sacrificing for the sake of
No civilization survives when the elders despise their
to the young and the youth hide from
the old.
1 But you are to proclaim things consistent with sound teaching. 2 Older men are to be self-controlled, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. 3 In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not slaves to excessive drinking. They are to teach what is good, 4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered.
6 In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled 7 in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching. 8 Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that any opponent will be ashamed, because he doesn’t have anything bad to say about us. —Titus 2:1-8
“For doubtless Paul is thinking of the control of temper and tongue, of ambition and avarice, and especially of bodily appetites, including sexual urges, so that Christian young men remain committed to the unalterable Christian standard of chastity before marriage and fidelity after it.” —John Stott
In the first half of life, we are tempted to carelessly
the Father’s love.
• Life is
• Struggle with
•
Don’t hide from the older generation;
them.
In the second half of life, we are tempted to callously
at the Father’s love.
• Life is
• Struggle with
•
“Once the sheer pulse of life, so strong in us during our youth, begins to be tempered by the weight of our commitments and the grind of the years, more of our sensitivities begin to break through, and we sense more and more how we have been wounded and how life has not been fair to us. New demons then emerge: bitterness, anger, jealousy, and a sense of having been cheated. Disappointment cools the fiery energies of our youth, and our enthusiasm for life begins to be tempered by bitterness and anger as we struggle to accept our limits and make peace with a life that now seems too small and unfair. —Ronald Rolheiser, Sacred Fire, 6
Don’t blame from the younger generation;
them.
PRACTICE TOGETHER THIS WEEK:
1. Spend time with saints that aren’t your age.