Walking the Passage: I don't walk so proudly now....

Friday, March 8, 2013

I don't walk so proudly now....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptiXfr5lJl8

Watch this clip.... It is one that some of my dearest friends and I quote, this movie, The Four Feathers, is precious to us.... We learned that to watch one another's backs amidst crazy situations was actually more important than anything else. We learned it wasn't position or ministry or gifting that linked us... we saw our pride... we saw our down fall and we learned.... Sometimes harder than others....

"I don't walk so proudly on the earth..." Starting off in ministry ... starting off in life ... it is easy at times to think you can conquer the world, or be the next whatever....

Except as in another scene when one of the characters speaks these words...

You may be lost, but you are not forgotten. For those who have travelled far, to fight in foreign lands, know that the soldier's greatest comfort is to have his friends close at hand. In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea for which we fight. Or a flag. Rather we fight for the man on our left, and we fight for the man on our right. And when armies are scattered and the empires fall away, all that remains is the memory of those precious moments that we spent sided by side.

Because we were put across one another's paths... In a time and in a season we saw amazing things but we learned even more amazing lessons... We learned what happens when we don't prefer one another... we learned what clanging gongs sound like when the power and gifts of God are used without love.... we saw what it was like to not prefer one another and we watched the carnage of it affect both us and our friends... We saw it all around us.. the echos of which we still see upon some of our friend's lives...

The lessons I learned... The lessons we learned... was that that which we thought we all wanted was not at all what would serve us best... and we learned to cherish one another because of the cost of not doing so was beyond anything we would ever ever want to pay ever again....

We learned to live anything but 1 Corinthians was foolishness... we learned to not walk so proudly upon the earth....

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part;but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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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.