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I think a cry of friendship is not “fix it”, but “do you care?”
The “do you care” place though can be a place of stuckness *if* we assume empathy is the *total* solution. *Sometimes* empathy becomes a wallow in the mire, a bath in swill, and even a shared entry into falsity.
No Jesus I know ever said “Try harder. Take notes and remember all the methods and bullet points so you can apply them.”
Continue reading “No Jesus”
If Jesus says “come into the deep and I will be with you” but we prefer to say “no thanks Jesus, I like wave-chasey” – He won’t argue. We have to want Him enough to stop playing games.
This has been a VSP
When was the last time you made the choice to LET yourself be bored?
What if ‘bored’ is a stepping stone to other places like creativity, rest, ‘deep hearing from deep’?
What if we begin to see the places the words of our mouths and the revealed attitudes of our hearts are less than consistent…
What if in fear – we learn to go to God…
What if in sorrow, we learn to lament…
Continue reading “Some What-Ifs”
It took a drought and a subsequent famine and a man sold by his brothers into slavery to bring Jacob and his 12 sons back together as a family of 70 into Egypt to shelter.
It took ten plagues and 400 years of descent into slavery to bring that family – now numbered millions – out.
It took disaster after disaster, warning after warning, disobedience after disobedience for people to cry out to God and recognise they’d turned away.
It took Jesus going to the cross to create freedom from the power and chains and sting of death for those who turn to Him.
It took millions of deaths and two giant wars after 19 centuries to return Jacobs family to their land.
Birth pains bring about birth.
God is at work throughout all these things.
He can be found.
Your shoulders were never intended to carry the whole world.
You are called to Life in My Name and from that place to let love and faithfulness never leave you.
Your shoulders aren’t big enough for this.
Come rest.
It’s not your burden to carry the whole world.
As so many of our usually unconscious patterns and routines are suddenly having to be rethought (with all their starbursts of connections also rethought) those trying to add school at home into the mix will possibly be experiencing some serious cases of mashed potato brain.
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The next few posts are catching this blog up with some of my facebook activity in the last two weeks…
Firstly – regarding homeschooling, schooling at home… isolation schooling… social distance school – whatever you want to call it. Kids are coming home to learn due to schools needing to close.
Continue reading “Corona Home-school post #1”
It was first through a very dear friend that I found a kind of awakening, a longing, a melting, a germinating seed of wanting… to be able to say I loved God like I saw this friend does. I’ve never not believed… and I am very frequently awed… and I love His Word deeply but do I love HIM? I’d have always said yes – but did I love Him like her?
Continue reading “Spurred”