Walking the Passage: It looks very much different then what I had anticipated.......

Saturday, January 2, 2010

It looks very much different then what I had anticipated.......

As part of my experiment to live purposefully for 100 days seeking how to love the Lord and love those around me with all that is within me ... I ask the question at least once a day but often as I think about it ... what does it mean... what does it practically looked like

The one thing I am learning, oh so much that continually surprises me, is not only is God thoroughly into the details but even when we don't think we are being religious I think we are...... I think we make so much out of nothing and then because we want it to be something play it up big...... or maybe I should just say it this way... I think that I have wanted this experiment to be this really spiritual season in my life where I grow in my understanding of who God is and I had all these preconceived ideas of what that meant...... What I am learning is that it is very different then what I thought it would be......

Today I was really surprised as I went to sit and focus on the Lord .. to love on Him... and in walked my oldest son... (who I have really been wanting time with) and Josh came into the room and sat down right with me and we spent a wonderful two hours together.... not doing anything but chatting and then watching Friends... yup ... Friends.....

As he got up (because he has this project to do and I am trying to teach him that procrastination is a bad thing) I stood in the room and truly thought about what I had intended to do versus what happened..... And as crazy as it sounds I know it to be true.. the very thing I sought to do I did...... but it looked so far different than I would have ever imagined... and I also got blessed.... I got the time with Josh and we just hung out...... and I know that God was there......

I am realizing more and more that there is a simplicity to faith and the walk with God that gets glossed over by all that we think we know..... all the trappings of faith that we put on and then walk out.... I don't know how to bring the words together completely but I feel this deep stirring inside and this confidence growing that when this experiment is over I will have begun to walk in that which I had hoped but it will look so very much different then I had ever anticipated....

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.