Thinking

Sometimes the thing you think you want turns out not to be the thing you want but only the thing you THOUGHT you wanted until you had the thing you thought you wanted and then the thing you had was not the thing you remember thinking you wanted but you couldn’t know it wouldn’t be until you had it but once you did, the thing you thought was only ever a figment that was always an impossibility, so letting go of the thing you thought and looking squarely at the thing that is, and appreciating the reality of that over the endless insatiability of the thing you thought – is what matters.

I think.

Greatest calling? Well – ‘A’ calling.

I don’t know yet about the ‘greatest calling’ part of this – or how that’s meant to look – but it certainly has been my experience that God will use my most searing hurts as a connector to others in theirs… so if that’s my greatest calling it is fine with me. I LOVE that God does this… He won’t waste a single hurt if we’ll let Him do His thing…

2 Cor 1:3-5 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

Loving well

“It’s all about love isn’t it… it’s about learning how to love well.”
“We think love is going to be easy – and it is easy – but it’s only easy when it’s easy…”

These were remarks made in a HS discussion group today.
• Loving well won’t always be easy.
• Loving well won’t always be felt as such.
• Loving well involves truth and light and application toward the future.

Interested in others thoughts – what else do you see about what it is to ‘love well’?

Epiphanies!

It is a strange, stark, scary, wonderful, desperately sad, terrifyingly eye opening, amazing thing when finally seeing you’ve held inconsistent or opposing ideas that simply cannot coexist and therefore undermine and undercut each other.
Strange because it has not been seen before. The thoughts in opposition have lain deep below conscious thought.

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