“Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?” Jesus
We tend too often, to focus on what we cannot do when it would be better to simply do what we can. Mother Teresa reminded us that we may not be able to feed a hundred but we can certainly feed one. Every day presents us with an opportunity to do what we can rather than sit paralyzed over perceptions of what we can't. 4/26/2011 Conversations Within ts (Pisgah National Forest, NC)
Just me trying to be honest with God.
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” David Carradine
“Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?” Jesus
We tend too often, to focus on what we cannot do when it would be better to simply do what we can. Mother Teresa reminded us that we may not be able to feed a hundred but we can certainly feed one. Every day presents us with an opportunity to do what we can rather than sit paralyzed over perceptions of what we can't. 4/26/2011 Conversations Within ts (Pisgah National Forest, NC)
We tend too often, to focus on what we cannot do when it would be better to simply do what we can. Mother Teresa reminded us that we may not be able to feed a hundred but we can certainly feed one. Every day presents us with an opportunity to do what we can rather than sit paralyzed over perceptions of what we can't. 4/26/2011 Conversations Within ts (Pisgah National Forest, NC)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde
“For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Jesus
After reading Mr. Wilde the first thing I thought about was how much this sounds somewhat like the goal of the Christian experience. Doesn't a Christian want to become like Christ, to think His thoughts, imitate His actions and live by His words? If this is the case, how can a Christian hope to live any kind of authentic life? We do well to remember that Jesus did not say that we must lose our life for the sake of loosing it but that we must lose it to find it. Christ does not wish to possess us like a demon but to enter our life and return us to true freedom. I can never be my own person in any good sense of the word unless I am set free to do so and if I am honest I confess that I am like the alcoholic, powerless before my selfishness. Any authenticity I hope to have can only be found in connection to my Creator not independent from Him. A branch cannot have life apart from the vine from which it sprang. 4/25/2011 Conversations Within ts (Pisgah National Forest, NC)
After reading Mr. Wilde the first thing I thought about was how much this sounds somewhat like the goal of the Christian experience. Doesn't a Christian want to become like Christ, to think His thoughts, imitate His actions and live by His words? If this is the case, how can a Christian hope to live any kind of authentic life? We do well to remember that Jesus did not say that we must lose our life for the sake of loosing it but that we must lose it to find it. Christ does not wish to possess us like a demon but to enter our life and return us to true freedom. I can never be my own person in any good sense of the word unless I am set free to do so and if I am honest I confess that I am like the alcoholic, powerless before my selfishness. Any authenticity I hope to have can only be found in connection to my Creator not independent from Him. A branch cannot have life apart from the vine from which it sprang. 4/25/2011 Conversations Within ts (Pisgah National Forest, NC)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde
“For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Jesus
After reading Mr. Wilde the first thing I thought about was how much this sounds somewhat like the goal of the Christian experience. Doesn't a Christian want to become like Christ, to think His thoughts, imitate His actions and live by His words? If this is the case, how can a Christian hope to live any kind of authentic life? We do well to remember that Jesus did not say that we must lose our life for the sake of loosing it but that we must lose it to find it. Christ does not wish to possess us like a demon but to enter our life and return us to true freedom. I can never be my own person in any good sense of the word unless I am set free to do so and if I am honest I confess that I am like the alcoholic, powerless before my selfishness. Any authenticity I hope to have can only be found in connection to my Creator not independent from Him. A branch cannot have life apart from the vine from which it sprang. 4/25/2011 Conversations Within ts (Pisgah National Forest, NC)
After reading Mr. Wilde the first thing I thought about was how much this sounds somewhat like the goal of the Christian experience. Doesn't a Christian want to become like Christ, to think His thoughts, imitate His actions and live by His words? If this is the case, how can a Christian hope to live any kind of authentic life? We do well to remember that Jesus did not say that we must lose our life for the sake of loosing it but that we must lose it to find it. Christ does not wish to possess us like a demon but to enter our life and return us to true freedom. I can never be my own person in any good sense of the word unless I am set free to do so and if I am honest I confess that I am like the alcoholic, powerless before my selfishness. Any authenticity I hope to have can only be found in connection to my Creator not independent from Him. A branch cannot have life apart from the vine from which it sprang. 4/25/2011 Conversations Within ts (Pisgah National Forest, NC)
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” Raymond Hull
“We make it our aim to please him.” 2Cor.5 ESV
How can we be free to please God if we are entangled in the web of wanting, human approval. It is a despairing prison when we try to live up to the expectations of people. Some sad souls never get over demanding parents or a domineering spouse, a workaholic boss even a controlling preacher. We must learn to serve people yes, but as God directs and looking only for His approval. He would set us free to serve joyfully, possessing a humble power that looks to the best interest of those in our life as a willing servant but never a slave imprisoned to their selfish demands. 4/25/2011 Conversations Within ts (On the road from Between GA to Brevard, NC)
How can we be free to please God if we are entangled in the web of wanting, human approval. It is a despairing prison when we try to live up to the expectations of people. Some sad souls never get over demanding parents or a domineering spouse, a workaholic boss even a controlling preacher. We must learn to serve people yes, but as God directs and looking only for His approval. He would set us free to serve joyfully, possessing a humble power that looks to the best interest of those in our life as a willing servant but never a slave imprisoned to their selfish demands. 4/25/2011 Conversations Within ts (On the road from Between GA to Brevard, NC)
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