Comments on: Black and White https://www.wanderingshepherd.org/2011/04/12/black-and-white/ The raw writings of a real pastor. Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: vernon https://www.wanderingshepherd.org/2011/04/12/black-and-white/#comment-331 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:48:44 +0000 http://www.wanderingshepherd.org/?p=391#comment-331 I remember the day that my wife and I sat down with you and said ‘we are going to have a baby boy and his name will be shepherd.” you looked at me and said “in all the years you’ve known me not once did you tell me shepherd was one of your family names” I said “it’s not you moron we are naming him after you!” I was amazed at your humility. I am proud to think of you when I call my son. I am blessed by your words both written and spoken. Thank you to your family for sharing their life as well as you with me and mine. I am honored to call you brother and grateful to call you friend. I hope and pray my son grows to be the man that the man he is named for is.

]]> By: vernon https://www.wanderingshepherd.org/2011/04/12/black-and-white/#comment-330 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:49:33 +0000 http://www.wanderingshepherd.org/?p=391#comment-330 b/w is great for photography. It enables you to take something and make it art and leave stuff to the imagination instead of knowing. It is amazing to me that we can take this same term that is so fascinating when it comes to photography is so heinous when it comes to theology. Relationships are filled with what ifs. Even someone like you or me that has been happily married for decades (ok only two but it still counts as plural) has to admit that even when we love our wives passionately the feelings ebb and flow. sometimes my wife that I love annoys me or irritates me or even the worst, disagrees with me. even though we do not agree on one hundred percent of everything, it does not matter because in the big picture we love each other more than the small things matter. in the words of the velveteen rabbit, the worns spots are love. Art is beautiful, life more so.

]]> By: Josey https://www.wanderingshepherd.org/2011/04/12/black-and-white/#comment-329 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:09:46 +0000 http://www.wanderingshepherd.org/?p=391#comment-329 Color comes into play with Biblical ethics all the time. “Thou shalt not divorce.” Easy. Black and white. What is the husband is abusive? More difficult. What if he is only mean and totally diminishing who the wife is? Now there is gray.

Thou shalt not kill. What about when cancer has totally ravaged the body and it is only a matter of days of tremendous pain? And, we increased the days of life by accepting treatment. Wasn’t that playing God?

Good post, Shepherd. Thanks for making me think.

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