I suspect that many of...
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I suspect that many of us question the statement in Today's English Version, "There was nothing attractive about him, nothing that would draw us to him." How can we be attracted to Jesus if there was nothing about him to attract us? Let's look at it this way, are we drawn to Jesus because of his teaching? Wrong. Are we drawn to Jesus because of his worldly power? No. Surely after Jesus was beaten and had been on the cross for awhile, there was little or nothing to attract the "natural" person. You have to be drawn by more than attractiveness.
I think of the poet Jane Merchant. She had a disease which so weakened her bones that she could not walk as a child. She was forced to live in a bed and to complicate matters she could not easily communicate with you because she had become deaf. Here was a lady who was too delicate almost to touch and who could not hear you. That does not sound attractive. Yet those of us who have been touched by her poems find her attractive.
You might want to read Sarah Ricketts' 1989 biography of Jane Hess Merchant, A Window of Eternity, which intersperses Merchant's poems with her history.
--Richardson
I think of the poet Jane Merchant. She had a disease which so weakened her bones that she could not walk as a child. She was forced to live in a bed and to complicate matters she could not easily communicate with you because she had become deaf. Here was a lady who was too delicate almost to touch and who could not hear you. That does not sound attractive. Yet those of us who have been touched by her poems find her attractive.
You might want to read Sarah Ricketts' 1989 biography of Jane Hess Merchant, A Window of Eternity, which intersperses Merchant's poems with her history.
--Richardson
