“I’ve been holding tension my whole life.” This was a remark that a friend made in our conversation over breakfast this week. The phrase has lodged itself in my mind due to the individual’s credibility as a gay man who also happens to be a committed follower of Jesus. Since coming out twenty years ago, he’s found himself at home in the thick complexity of unresolved tension.
In general, tension comes to the surface when we are faced with various elements of absurdity, irony, opposition, or contradictions throughout our life experiences. Life throws these awkward spaces at us all the time and in response we demand inner resolution to it all.
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