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Last night three fellow teachers and I went to VT to have dinner with some friends who used to be our students and are now students at Tech. Our hope was to be encouraging to them… One of these folks asked two of my fellow travellers if we had seen the memorials… So on the way home we drove through campus, stopped and pondered some of the memorials. Here are some pix from in front of Burris Hall. It was late dusk when we arrived, the darkness of the photos somehow seems appropriate.

the flowers surrounding the VT logo…

Around campus there were numerous banners from other schools… the message is that we are all Hokies now as we stand in unity with the Va Tech community, this is a sample that was in front of Burris from Anderson College.

After a few minutes looking at the remembrances, it was time for the long drive to C’ville… I took one more look at the scene…

I was moved by this scene… its like I could feel the loss… the grief… may God bring peace to these who hurt and have suffered so great a loss…

The Divine Embrace is a book that was recommended to me by a friend in the ministry. Thanks Bill. I found it to be amazingly helpful in my own journey. There are some quotes that I’d like to think more about and even have some conversation about that will be posted soon. I chose to make any possible conversation part of this blog because I think it has to do with how we need to think about following Christ in this postmodern era… This spurred me on to another Robert Webber work that I had begun and now finished… The Younger Evangelicals…

“The current focus on worship originating in self is probably a reaction against truth without passion and is what happened to me as a result of the Enlightenment and what happened to me when my learning of Scripture through the scientific method left me dry.” (Embrace p.233)

“Worship needs both truth and passion. Truth without passion is dry. Passion without truth is empty. Where do we go to find both truth and passion? I suggest recovering worship as the proclamation and enactment of God’s story. (Robert Webber, Worship Old and New 2nd ed.)” (Embrace p. 233)

“Prayer is a weapon God has given his people in the struggle against those evil impulses that drive a person to focus on self and self- interest.” (Embrace p. 208)