My whole person works amazingly well
when I fix my eyes on you oh God.
And, my whole person struggles like mad when the eyes of my heart wander to other things
be they fears or dreams or just short term pleasures
but with my eyes fixed on you
my pleasures become long term
pleasures bearing fruit regularly and consistently
without me [...]
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You are slowing me down to a speed at which I can travel and cover great distances in a very short time. At my speed, most of what comes out of me is waste, error and argument. It takes days to recover from a minutes foolishness. It takes years to recover from general misguidedness. Just [...]
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Being in the world
I need to be able to navigate my way in it
I am affected by the issues of the day
I can enjoy the pleasures
and experience the sufferings, the injustices
sometimes the pain
The issues of the world will determine to a great extent what happens to me
but somehow I must not be controlled by them,
Not [...]
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Jesus makes it clear that precisely because his disciples no longer belong to the world, they can live in the world as he did. John 17
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My greatest temptation in living and communicating an open Christian life … is to quit
the second greatest temptation is to make a cause of it.
instead of living it
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Thankyou for making a life for me
beside still waters and in green pasture
I look at it, talk about it, sing about it
even visit it
now I must learn to live in it
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A blind spot between waiting and acting
How long to just wait for something to recover when it obviously isn’t.
When to act to seek to bring remedy
Stuck in a blind spot between waiting and acting
You have called us to intentionally and actively watch
like the watchmen watch for the morning
then we will see what you’re doing
and participate [...]
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I met an unbelieving guy the other day who said I looked well and what was the secret
I said I’m working backwards in age years to get younger
It’s the man upstairs that’s doing it
He said I guess he’s looking after you because of the good work you’re doing for him
I said no, he’s looking after [...]
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There is no winning or losing
life is not a matter or more or less
so there are no winner or losers
there is no inside track or network to get in on or be left out of
being lead through my day in a way that I find a life worth living in all circumstances
this is what I [...]
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I am rescued not as a reward for listening to him
and I am not left to myself as a punishment for not listening
the truth of it is that only when I listen can I respond to him
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