Walking the Passage: I am one whose Heritage is rich... I am one who is truly grateful

Sunday, December 12, 2010

I am one whose Heritage is rich... I am one who is truly grateful

There are moments in life that reside and reverberate within the soul.... Moments whether good or bad that help form who it is we are.

I am one who is richly blessed by a godly heritage within certain movements.

I am grateful for the strengths of those movements that I have come through. I am grateful for the paradigms of life that they forged within the depths of who I am. I am grateful for the wealth that they deposited within my life. From a passion for worship to an understanding that it is the whole body that is called to be equipped to minister to the truths that our Lord speaks in many ways to the fact that I can see and hear and touch and taste and smell the attributes if my God and His kingdom.

You have equipped me well and given me shoulders to jump off of and I am grateful. I am so very grateful. I love the DNA that resides within me. You have served God well within my life.

And where times and situations brought to bear seasons and orbits that grew us apart instead of bringing us together.... Well, even within those I have found gratitude. For they too have taught me well.

They taught me to repent quickly, to grow in character and maturity and they have taught me to learn to stand on my own and worship the Lord my God only. To not hold on to one expression as an idol but to grow in appreciation for the greater body.

To the Body of Christ you are my family..... We are all so connected in ways we don't even fully comprehend. We will one day stand as the Bride of our Lord. Together. When one of us is weaken we are all weakened. When one of us is sad or pain or when one of us is rejoicing then we all share in that as well.

As I think upon my heritage as specific and as general I am grateful. For I was once not a part of anything .... I was lost and alone. As it is in 1 Peter 2:10.
English Standard Version
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

We are the people of God. Chosen and dearly loved. You are my brothers and sisters. You are my family. You are my heritage. May we walk forward worthy of the calling if Children if God.

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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.