What scripture are you meditation on? I must confess that I don't have a scripture at the moment. I must confess I have not for a long time. That needs to change. I want to focus on the life of Jesus, I think. Perhaps that is the struggle there is so much in there I can't decide where to start. Let me think on this and I will get back to you.
This week: I attended a national day of prayer service yesterday. It was interesting. Also, I had my yoga instructor from last year asked to meet with me. She said she had seizures as a child and stuttered a lot and now sometimes she is afraid to speak because she fears it might not come out right. She asked me to help her. Turns out she had been looking for me even going into the book store here knowing I had spoken with and connected to Tyler the owner. I told her I didn't know if I could help but I would be willing to meet with her. We met on Wednesday. She said I feel that you are a healer. . .that really struck me. And meant a lot to me. We talked for several hours. It seemed to go very well.
This is one of the big aha moments I had while at STW that I shared with her. One thing I learned was that I am so good at looking at others perspectives. All my life I have been busy trying to see the situation from others experiences, involvement, emotions, investments etc. This year I realized that that is great but the problem is I forget to look at it from MY perspective. I forget to ask what do I think about this, how does this make ME feel. Which is a huge problem because we have to have a "shelf" a "framework" from which our experiences can be organized. I think often Protestant Christianity has emphasized an idea so heavily as to getting it unbalanced and is the idea of being dependent on Jesus for everything. Ahh I know that is a scary statement but I think about some of the things I've heard or said I am scum, I am a wretch, I am nothing etc. Those are TRUE but once we are REDEEMED we are the vehicle by which God does his work. It is not just Jesus but Jesus + me. Which means that who I am, my thoughts, talents, abilities, skills, passions, imagination everything once REDEEMED is as Yahweh would say GOOD. So it is wrong of me to declare what he has called good nothing, worthless or moot. I am relevant and redeemed I am powerful, strong, beautiful. This is not arrogance it is acknowledgment. It is yet another form of worship and the hardest of all because it means we have stepped from powerlessness into power. NOW we must find ourselves, we must let him show us and then we must SHINE and FLAVOR.
Exercise: Tell me 5 things that make you smile about you?
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