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| "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure 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 everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
--Marianne Williamson
Isaiah 60, arise and shine, Papa made you good. :) | | |
| Simplicity.
Trust.
Love.
My Daddy loves me, and He is good! :) | | |
| As I was running today, I thought about this:
If I value a human being's gift or what they can do or create more than I value who they are, I'm missing the enormous value and depth in the person before me, who is the gift. A person who is crafted by the hand of God, created by Him to be like Him, of immeasurable value and worth in His eyes, and from this person, love, creativity, and grace flow in amazing ways.
The value of the labor is in the laborer. We have flipped it the other way, and I caught myself separating a person's value and worth and their gifting, and elevating the second rather than appreciating the first! I thought about the product, about the influence, about all these things, and realized the gift is only complete if it's seen in the context of the source, which is the person who He loves. A person who carries such a beauty and likeness to be called a son or daughter of God... and I saw a glimpse of what He sees, and I can understand why there is amazing output, because the source is simply, astounding.
There is a predisposition in the fall to make the part the whole, because of the loss of relationship with an infinite God. Even with reestablished relationship we see in part, and it is only in its proper context when we know an omniscient God who is bigger than what we know and we trust His goodness, that we will comfortably leave room for a realm of mystery.
The gift of a person is not who he is, but it is the context of this person of infinite worth that brings life and breath to a gift, and consequently everything that flows from this gift. If we work to sharpen our gifts yet forget the magnitude of His sacrifice for us in the core of who we are, we have not known love. Paradoxically God loves us completely when we could give Him nothing, and in complete acceptance of this love we have an insatiable desire to give Him everything! His love brings a blossoming of the human spirit into a fully actualized, functioning being that resonates the frequency of his eternal Creator King.
What He has conceived of in His mind for the human race to be, I believe we have yet to find out in its entirety. The earth groans for the sons of God to be revealed, and as His sons, it is mind boggling to fathom the enormity and majesty of our Father. He is so much greater than I have known, my vision is expanding yet again, yet I will never fully comprehend. And one of the greatest mysteries is Christ in you, the hope of glory. | | |
| “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
~ Mother Teresa
I want to know what this means, I want to know what 1 Cor 13 means, what it looks like in real life in being, in action. I want to know the Jesus who loves me like this, until there is no more pain, only more love. | | |
| As I was driving home, my revelation of the day:
Because I am loved, I can be me.
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Things that really stuck with me from worship and Jason Upton's sharing:
God is good... and He's smiling at me!
Jesus is Jesus, He's not who I think He is, He's not able to be boxed in. He's Him. :)
People want absolutes and certainties, but God wants relationship.
To surrender and live each day not knowing what's going to happen.
To always be wanting to help Him, that defines me as His child.
To write every moment down, because I have a story that is the only one like it, and that every moment is precious to Him. I really feel that in my life, that His will and my daily living are being worked in a deeper way.
I laughed a lot at his stories :) it was so good.
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