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Based on his research on the personal consequences of work in the age of globalization, sociologist Richard Sennett has noted that we yearn for but, due to the new economy's need for flexibility, are losing a coherent sense of a personal narrative to our lives. And without this we feel like we are just drifting in life (The Corrosion of Character, pp. 131ff). Seventeenth-century French intellectual Blaise Pascal well described this sense of drift: "I look around in every direction and all I see is darkness. Nature has nothing to offer me that does not give rise to doubt and anxiety" (Pensees, p. 162).
The lesson makes clear that God is in control of our lives, just as he guided the wise men to Jesus. Martin Luther nicely describes the confidence we can have in God's plan for us from day to day:
God created the sparrows; this is why not one of them will fall to the ground without his will. God not only created human beings but also let his dear Son suffer for them. Therefore he will and must care for them far more than he does for the worthless sparrows.
(What Luther Says, p. 1150)
Process theologians John Cobb and David Ray Griffin provide insight about how this appreciation of God always guiding us can help create the sense of meaning in life that our globalized, flexible economy is robbing from us:
This creatively and responsively loving God is incarnately active in the present, bringing about immediate good on the basis of activity in the past and with the purpose to bring about greater good in the future.
(Process Theology, p. 68)
God's life plan for our futures is to take our lives and make more good through them.
The lesson makes clear that God is in control of our lives, just as he guided the wise men to Jesus. Martin Luther nicely describes the confidence we can have in God's plan for us from day to day:
God created the sparrows; this is why not one of them will fall to the ground without his will. God not only created human beings but also let his dear Son suffer for them. Therefore he will and must care for them far more than he does for the worthless sparrows.
(What Luther Says, p. 1150)
Process theologians John Cobb and David Ray Griffin provide insight about how this appreciation of God always guiding us can help create the sense of meaning in life that our globalized, flexible economy is robbing from us:
This creatively and responsively loving God is incarnately active in the present, bringing about immediate good on the basis of activity in the past and with the purpose to bring about greater good in the future.
(Process Theology, p. 68)
God's life plan for our futures is to take our lives and make more good through them.
