Wednesday, Advent Two - Anxiety & Freedom
“It is the command of Jesus that we not worry, as the world worries, in ways that make us crazy or mean or angry or hateful or quarrelsome. It is a command spoken by Jesus who himself is un-anxious and unflappable. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine Jesus being anxious. He is unafraid before the Roman governor at his trial, unflappable before the high priest on his dread-filled Thursday inquisition, unworried when the storm rages, completely at peace even in the ferocious storm on the Sea of Galilee. He is unafraid, un-anxious, not worried. And he invites his disciples to stay close to him and to share his un-anxious presence.”
Walter Brueggemann, A Gospel of Hope, page 33.
