Ok, we just irrigated Luke’s cecostomy, which basically means he just received an enema. Now we will see if his colon is working. Could y’all pray for God to “wake up” Luke’s colon, so that things begin moving through it and out. It would be cool for you to pray now and then read the rest of this later.
Last November, I wrote this post and I am copying it here again.
This idea of Luke’s intestines “waking up” make me think of two things: The Gospel and the TV show “Lost”. There was a period of time in America called The Great Awakening (1730-1740′s). From Wikipedia, “Pulling away from ritual and ceremony, the Great Awakening made religion intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption, and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality.” Two dead dudes (they were not dead at the time) that God used during this time were George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards. What Jesus did through these guys was nothing short of the miraculous. Basically, religious people who thought they were Christians, were struck by the preaching of Whitfield and Edwards, and came to the conclusion that they were not Christians and responded to the gospel of grace with faith and repentance. They repented of their “churchianity”, something that needs to happen here in the American South.
Much like The Great Awakening, Luke’s colon needs a “great awakening”.
I also thought of the last season of “Lost”. If you haven’t seen “Lost” (and you need to, go ahead and put it in your Netflix queque), these clips may not mean much, but when I saw them last May, I was struck with how they parallel with the Gospel. The whole point of the Gospel is that our hearts need to be “awakened” with grace. Without grace, our hearts are dead and cold, so we need Someone from the outside, Christ, to come and awaken our hearts and remember who God is and who we are. Notice in these clips, that someone’s “awakening” happens when someone from the outside touches them. We are unable to spiritually awaken ourselves. That is what these clips are about (note: the pluralistic theology of the writers doesn’t quite fit with historic Christian orthodoxy, but the point of being awakened still stands).
To continue this theme of “awake” here is a little Mumford and Sons:
praying!
michelle