tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-201109612024-03-13T12:28:23.134-05:00Live a Life WorthyArtist, writer, teacher, Jane of all trades, living life to the dregs. thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.comBlogger646125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-68761385695189126092022-09-16T17:07:00.001-05:002022-09-16T17:07:25.902-05:00One Crazy Morning at ESL Class<p></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> It was a hot and sticky morning. (That's like a dark and stormy night, right?)</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I arrived at the church where we hold English classes to find construction equipment and men all over the roof over where we normally hold classes. I had been warned that they were eventually going to begin fixing the roof, but since it had been expected for several months I had been lulled into complacency. Maybe they were just up there and we could still be in the rooms? </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> No. The noises from overhead were terrifying enough that I wasn't comfortable in the rooms, let alone my more sensitive and traumatized refugee women. As black debris began trickling through the ceiling tiles like the sand in a sinister hourglass I made my decision... we couldn't have classes in those rooms! </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> So I called my director, considered having class outside but it was 90 degrees and humid (see, there was a point to that first sentence!), and finally ended up setting up class in a nearby hallway. It wasn't ideal and it wasn't quiet, but it would do. </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> That was the first adventure of the day. You that would be crazy enough didn't you! </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I rushed to test new incoming students, welcome ladies in, and direct them where to go (since it wasn't our normals space). Several volunteers were out for illness, other obligations, or hospitalization! Then, one student's husband ran into the fence damaging it. While dealing with that (he was very apologetic) the construction crew approached saying a car had been parked where they needed access and could it get moved right away, please? </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> My volunteers stepped in to greet at the doorway, give registration tests, find the driver of the car that needed moved, and combined classes to give every student a place to be.</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> When classes were fully underway and all the testing had been finished, I went and found the room of kids, most of whom were crying. So I sat and held a few of them for the remaining class time and thought, yeah, some days are rough and just I want my mom, too. 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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> I went to a conference put on by the Navigators recently. It was on being a neighbor and how to love your neighborhood. It was deeply encouraging and I had good practical things to take away from it. But it ended with this quote that I feel sums up so much of what I feel like I tell others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>“It is a privilege to have the time to practice this simple ministry of presence. Still, it is not a simple as it seems. My own desire to be useful, to do something significant, or to be part of some impressive project is so strong that too my time is taken up by meetings, conferences, study groups, and workshops that prevent me from walking the streets. It is difficult not to have plans, not to organize people around an urgent cause, and not to feel that you are working directly for social progress. But I wonder more and more if the first thing should be to know the people by name, to eat and drink with them, to listen to their stories and tell your own, and to let them know with words, handshakes, and hugs that you do not silly like them, but truly love, them.” ~ Henri Nouwe<span style="font-size: 12px;">n</span></i></span></div>
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<br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-26772372491696843872019-06-26T11:01:00.000-05:002019-07-31T11:01:46.175-05:00Golden Bowls Full of Incense<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitD9rfTzT5yEq-TcIdX2Q2vlbLCz7HmZvWXMDIGrIhgQWfORnZYaofxPyt1Ee6nMDNrAc0u4GO5cV-eFjaLArF2lPteB3fqwo7VuqW-d7RZT3f5fC4k3a2VrLwKggEafMDjN-TyQ/s1600/IMG_1280.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitD9rfTzT5yEq-TcIdX2Q2vlbLCz7HmZvWXMDIGrIhgQWfORnZYaofxPyt1Ee6nMDNrAc0u4GO5cV-eFjaLArF2lPteB3fqwo7VuqW-d7RZT3f5fC4k3a2VrLwKggEafMDjN-TyQ/s400/IMG_1280.JPG" width="300" /></a><br />
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<br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-53749682707197234842019-03-03T18:22:00.002-06:002019-03-03T18:22:42.596-06:00The Pleasing AromaThe first place Scripture talks about the pleasing aroma is Genesis 8:21. Noah offers a sacrifice and the Lord smells the pleasing aroma and makes a promise never to again curse the ground because of man.<br />
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But over and over again in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers the "pleasing aroma" comes up. The daily offerings, monthly offerings, each feast and festival, all have sacrifices that are burnt as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. And it's not just the smell of barbecue; the pleasing aroma is also tied to grain offerings. (Maybe it's not really about the smell but what it represents?) Honestly, the repetition here feels a little monotonous at first and then I remember how many times I have to hear things before I really take notice. (Like... LOTS!)<br />
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Finally, however, we make it to Ezekiel and things get all dark. The Israelites were offering their pleasing aromas to idols instead of God. Interesting that their offerings were not equated the burnt animals, but that the essence of the offering was actually the pleasing aroma.<br />
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Then Ezekiel 20:41 uses the phrase as a simile to describe the restoration of Israel saying, <i>"As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations."</i> Here the people themselves will be accepted in the same way as the Lord accepts the pleasing aroma of the sacrifice. Nice, right? How does that even work?<br />
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Shazaam! The New Testament explains!<br />
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2 Corinthians 2:14-16. <i>"But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?" </i><br />
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1. The aroma is still <u>to God</u>.<br />
2. It's not always pleasing to people (for some it's life for others death).<br />
3. The aroma is still of the sacrifice: Christ Jesus!<br />
4. It is the aroma of his sacrifice that we carry with us that grants us welcome to God, thus fulfilling Ezekiel 20:41.<br />
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There are other verses that expand on this related to the fragrant offering of Christ, but this popped out to me with just the word "aroma".<br />
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<br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-4248524565643229512018-09-20T15:40:00.000-05:002018-09-20T15:40:05.520-05:00Amazing ThingsJoy is when a Middle Eastern friend lets you help her in her kitchen.thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-78537781157803467882017-12-03T21:29:00.000-06:002017-12-03T21:36:11.497-06:00Two Feasts - Joseph and the PassoverGenesis 40 ends with a feast for Pharaoh's birthday. And if feasts are often catalysts for something, this one fails. God's servant, Joseph, is NOT let go. The cupbearer, once restored to his position of honor, forgets to mention him to Pharoah. Bummer.<br />
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But then the story before this feast caught my attention. We have a cupbearer and a baker, the wine and bread represented, the blood and the body of communion. Why then does the cupbearer get restored to honor and the baker get hanged? Aren't both important to the story? But reading on into Exodus we explore the Passover and this is where the bread is tossed. All the leavening and leavened bread are removed from the house. Bye, bye, Baker!<br />
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This connection in itself is a bit tenuous. (I still have lots of questions about this story and what it means on a deeper level.) But nothing is in Scripture by accident. And that's when the contrast hit me. After the feast of Passover (the first one!), the Israelites ARE LET GO, unlike Joseph who remained for years in prison.<br />
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<br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-38115800313354805942017-11-26T20:56:00.000-06:002017-12-03T21:29:30.813-06:00Two Feasts - Abraham and HerodSometimes you read two passages next to each other that you never have connected before. Then something happens. You realize in a flash that they are sort of similar. Then the dominos keep falling and suddenly they are both about the same thing at the heart.<br />
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Tonight it was Genesis 21:8-20 and Mark 6:21-28.<br />
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Both passages begin with a feast. In the first, we have the feast commemorating the weaning of Isaac. In the second, the feast is for Herod's birthday. Both feasts are not the point but rather the catalyst for something to happen.<br />
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At the party for Isaac, Sarah decides that it's time to kick out Hagar and Ishmael and Abraham does. The earlier born but "backup" son has to go to make way for the true child of promise. His expulsion is ugly and brutal and feels utterly unfair.<br />
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At the party for Herod, Herodias decides that it's time for John the Baptist to die and Herod follows through. The earlier born relative and prophet came to prepare a way for the true Messiah of promise. His death is ugly and brutal and feels utterly unfair.<br />
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In both stories, the feast is the beginning of something important. In both, the someone is moved out to make way for the true promise.<br />
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A few other things struck me, too. Ishamael is soon threatened with death as he and Hagar wander in the wilderness. But God rescues him. Isaac is later threatened with death as Abraham prepares him for sacrifice. God rescues him as well.<br />
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This contrasts with John and Jesus, both of whom are killed. The earlier story is only playing pretend. It doesn't know the seriousness of what it will become.<br />
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<span id="goog_118521897"></span><span id="goog_118521898"></span><br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-87102676887181743122015-07-28T12:33:00.003-05:002015-07-28T12:36:28.985-05:00My Hope is Built on Nothing Less<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I feel alone, apart, adrift. I thought I had an anchor but I cannot feel its tug. Does that mean it is no longer there? And so I fear, doubt, and become even more tossed to and fro by the wind and the waves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I cry out but Jesus does not speak the words I would choose for him. He does not speak "Peace, Be Still" to the chaos of my life, my own storm. I know he could as easily he controlled the Sea of Galilee. Why? Help!</span><br />
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thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-69439966551494554612015-02-07T20:47:00.001-06:002015-02-07T20:47:50.098-06:00The Perfect Game<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-FTmnpW0ixP0UxzezO3e16HdYo_epuaBtokx0iOe6ZGiCVZoN4p66XLZk-c4sO8WIwQ_-zvyp29KgZuwA4Lt9NSiLXQ_-aO5LXePE8WRJN4XToetlEwQyMcvqcZ1CZ34LrtSbA/s1600/IMG_1492.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-FTmnpW0ixP0UxzezO3e16HdYo_epuaBtokx0iOe6ZGiCVZoN4p66XLZk-c4sO8WIwQ_-zvyp29KgZuwA4Lt9NSiLXQ_-aO5LXePE8WRJN4XToetlEwQyMcvqcZ1CZ34LrtSbA/s1600/IMG_1492.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>I love games. I grew up playing board games with my family and when we'd finally exhausted Monopoly and a dozen others we started trying to make our own board game. We've picked it up again a few Christmases over the past fifteen years, and we did again this past Christmas. It was hysterical and fun.<br />
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For the first time in our gaming history we came up with a functional game that had a beginning, a middle, and an end. It worked. But like a fifth grade creative writing project, it lacked depth. It wasn't something we ever really wanted to play again. This led my sister and I to think through more and more about what made a game great. This is a topic we're still working on and while we have some ideas, it isn't a perfect science either.<br />
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There are more dots in the connection than I can explain, but I eventually rabbit trailed this into seeing this as yet another metaphor for life. Life is God's game with us, not in a malicious or spiteful way. But it is full of challenge, friendship, and story. I should see those things in life with the same kind of delight and perseverance, the same kind of sportsmanship in winning and losing, the same appreciation that I have for board games.<br />
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And it all comes back to my phrase for the year: "For the joy set before him..." and thus "For the joy set before me...".<br />
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May we all look to the joy set before us, right in front of us as well as stretched out ahead past difficult things.thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-75918915037816606852015-01-04T22:05:00.006-06:002015-01-04T22:06:15.457-06:00Again with the Doctor Who... I know.<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> “Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make any difference?” ~The Doctor</span></b></span><br />
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But sometimes people cut off others for reasons that seem legitimate. I won't go into those and it's not those I care about. It's this: that Jesus loved me so much that betrayal, that being his enemy, didn't make a difference in whether or not he would die for me.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;">I admit it; I was surprised by the confetti. My mouth gaped open, there was a sudden intake of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;">breath. And then I smiled. I wasn’t expecting anything fancy for a $20 concert, even though it was one of my favorite bands. I loved it all. I loved the concert. I loved the confetti.</span><br />
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In a few weeks they had escaped their plastic bag and would roll and rustle every time I turned a corner. They were taunting me with my inadequacy on many levels. First, I should have gotten around to giving them away. Second, maybe I should be using them myself!<br />
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And then it hit me. How many times in life do I let people give me their expectations, the weights of their standards, the burdens of their dreams? Just because someone else wants to live until they are 120, doesn't mean I have to strive for that. Just because someone wants to run a marathon doesn't mean I have to start training. Just because someone takes a certain vitamin and calls it their miracle drug, doesn't mean I have to spend half my income on it too. Everyone has their own obsession.<br />
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I've got my own. When the woman in class mentions her traumatic memories of finding body parts of a relative, and it triggers the memories and fears of another lady who cries for her family in ISIS controlled areas, there is little to do but listen.<br />
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I've realized I can't care about everything; I don't have it in me. Some weights belong to other people and not to me. But even more than that, I'm not the one who is supposed to carry any of these weights. Jesus bears my burdens.<br />
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<br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-78988401867642803572014-09-04T22:18:00.005-05:002014-09-04T22:19:05.367-05:00Lamentations Poem Tides rush down un-wooed by the moon<br />
And the soft grey wool of the sky unravels<br />
Like myself all undone to the earth<br />
A puddle weeping into the broken cracks<br />
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Neighbor drummer pounds the sounds<br />
Inside my sorry head late at night<br />
Intoxicated with too much thinking<br />
The plants outside too drunk with drinking<br />
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Will I awaken tired and sad?<br />
The plants will thrive and green.<br />
Or will the tears be spent tonight<br />
The stains be dry in the morning light<br />
And new mercies shine again?<br />
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<i>Lamentations 3:22-23</i>thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-5246358821645813772014-09-01T22:31:00.000-05:002014-09-01T22:31:48.402-05:00Preaching to MyselfI'm always going around telling people to do things they are afraid of. For example, "Talk to the lady with a headscarf. She's not scary. She could use a friend and probably someone to speak English with her." Or, "You could teach in a foreign country. It's actually really fun!" Or even sometimes things that are a little more mundane, "You can step out of your shell and talk about something deep, something that hits below the surface conversation about the weather."<br />
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And all this is pretty easy for me. I'm not the type that is easily frightened by the unfamiliar. I moved to Iraq when my country still had an active military presence there. People called me brave, but it didn't feel like bravery because it wasn't scary to me in the first place. So sometimes I'm not very compassionate towards people who are afraid of things. I see their fear and how it keeps them from doing amazing things and I just don't understand. Get a grip, people!<br />
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That is, until I run into the wall that is my own fear. When my own insecurities and inadequacies are on the surface of something new, suddenly fear is a totally understandable and reasonable response! I mean, that wall is made of brick! How could I possible get over or go through THAT!<br />
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For me, that meant being filmed... like... on camera. I think I had to pee every fifteen minutes that morning and visibly shaking as the time drew near. The first take had me looking like a frozen deer in the headlights. I had to preach the same message to myself that I so often give to others. "It's good to do something that scares you. It's worth it to step out of your comfort zone. This will help you grow and help others hear something new."<br />
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Thankfully, I was blessed to work with people who are my friends, who have great grace for me, and know me well enough to help me relax and laugh a little. In all, it was a good experience, even a little fun. I was running on adrenaline for the rest of the afternoon but adrenaline can make you very productive, so that was awesome.<br />
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So the message I preach to my friends here, I also preach to myself, because it is true. Our lives are better when we step into something uncomfortable, when we try new things, when we step out to do the things that God calls us to do, rejecting our irrational fears and instead walking in faith in the God who made us.<br />
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<br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-74644113399835740492014-07-03T20:59:00.003-05:002014-07-03T21:06:50.921-05:00Celebrity Teammates<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTmMikK6Xevl_nsR37BwQNQK9npbNTzY57Hx8VQQHrsS-r1EyLXXA" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTmMikK6Xevl_nsR37BwQNQK9npbNTzY57Hx8VQQHrsS-r1EyLXXA" /></a>I've really enjoyed watching the World Cup this year. I got into living overseas, four years ago, and it didn't wear off in the last two years in the US. The game between the US and Belgium was so much fun to watch, despite the outcome. The most of the press in the US has been on the fantastic goalie, Tim Howard, and rightfully so. He's amazing. His saves were fantastic. At one point the announcers said that he had not once dove in the wrong direction. All that, and he's good looking!<br />
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The aftermath of it, at least for him, is an incredible jump in celebrity status. He's trending on FB. He spoke to the president, along with the team captain Clint Dempsey. You know you've gotten into the big league if the president calls you AND films himself while doing it. I mean, wow.<br />
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The articles have been, as a whole, very positive. Even the captain of the Belgian team has respect for the play of Tim Howard. But there's something about all of this that I don't understand. Suddenly, there are also articles about how Tim Howard's a Christian and it's all shocking and wow, I bet you didn't know. What's up with that?<br />
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I'm all for supporting your team. As a Christian myself, I know that other Christians are my family. But the sudden interest in his faith seems, disingenuous. It's like we only care if he's a Christian once he's famous. Either that, or there's the idea that because he's a Christian and famous that I'll get some fame because I'm a Christian? I don't know, really. I know that's not what people were thinking when they wrote the articles, but I can't help but feel that its false boasting or something.<br />
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Maybe I'm wrong to be a little annoyed by these things. I mean, I'm glad he's going to Heaven and all; I'm happy when my family succeeds. But are we happy to know about believers who aren't succeeding on the earthly stage? Are we willing to identify ourselves with them as easily? Do we Christians just as excitedly claim them as part of our "team" as well? Or does our embarrassment over our less flashy relatives really mean we disown them and send them into exile.<br />
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I know there's a balance. Modesty is required for the unpresentable parts of the body of Christ. But somehow I don't think earthly success and celebrity is really the measure of a man. thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-52503196873419072662014-06-24T14:46:00.001-05:002014-06-24T15:22:22.792-05:00Morning SnippetsThis morning in my car I sang the Baby Shark song, Old MacDonald, If You're Happy and You Know It, and some song with Boom Chicka Chicka in it. The kids called out one song after the other asking me to sing with them. Their mother laughed at them and me, perhaps more at me for singing along. <br />
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One little boy is used to getting his own way. His habit is to slap the adult's face or spit if he is not given whatever he wants. But by today he has realized, that doesn't work with me. I told him no and instead he put his arms around my neck and put his head down on my shoulder. Trying a new tactic. He still wasn't allowed to clobber the other children. But I prefer this response.<br />
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<br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-88247138472893861142014-06-18T11:26:00.000-05:002014-06-18T12:17:40.050-05:00Safety First!With all the violence in Iraq now, more and more people
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Even before this, people have commented on how they are glad
I survived, glad I am safe now, glad I’m in a safer place. It makes me angry. I
know they mean well, but it isn’t better to have survived. It isn’t always
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has bought into the evolutionary lie that survival is the highest good. We have
adopted a Hunger Games mentality where survival determines who is fittest and
best. Caution is the new moral standard. Anything remotely perceived as
reckless is no longer brave, but labeled as foolish. We have found a way to
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value in and of itself. St. Paul says that to die is gain. Living is mostly
characterized by suffering. We are told to live a life that daily anticipates and
accepts death, why else would we carry a cross? If safety is your greatest
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We are to live urgently, fully, patiently, courageously,
carrying a cross with us wherever God has called us to be whether it looks safe
or not. After all, our idea of safety is only an illusion. If God calls you to
our glorious eternal home he can do so just as easily with a car crash in a
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We have fashioned a God of our own making. Our obsession
with safety first has created an idol that causes many to cease living at all,
to hide away talents and callings in the houses of our lives like agoraphobic
old women afraid to step out into the sunshine. The truest death is not found
in the dangerous places, but rather found in the dusty forgotten corners where
piles of dead bones lay having only wasted away, never having been used or seen
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<!--EndFragment-->thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-3774260440570326932014-05-23T15:47:00.001-05:002014-05-23T15:48:41.619-05:00Overanalyzing My SelfI'm tying myself up in knots as I see how I've grown and changed over the last couple of years in the US. I've become more lazy (or maybe just more easily worn out?), more selfish and focused on my own needs, and I've somehow lost some of my best Bible reading habits. I came back to the States a giant wound open and bleeding, ready to show everyone, because no amount of bandages could hide the mess I was. But now? It's scarred over, and I'm glad for that. But there is less grace from others for being a bit of a mess still. Or maybe there isn't less grace from others, but rather I think there will be less grace from others. Who knows? In this Southern world of people appearing perfect, scars are scary.<br />
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Whatever the case, while much of the pain is gone, the adjustments to life in the US still continue. This afternoon I went to take a package to the mail. I was wearing a sleeveless dress around the house. Before I left I put on a sweater. It wasn't until I was half way to the post office that I realized that I don't have to make sure my arms are covered to my elbows here. It was such a habit, and still is, I guess, that I didn't even notice my reasoning for wearing a sweater out into the 85 degree heat. I still find these things as they fly out of the blue and crash into my mind. Sometimes the object is a water balloon or even a soccer ball. But sometimes the cleanup of the wreckage is more time consuming.<br />
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<a href="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/691/cache/airplane-crash-sanfrancisco_69165_600x450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/691/cache/airplane-crash-sanfrancisco_69165_600x450.jpg" height="147" width="200" /></a>As I've gone back to things like teaching English I run into more of these things... different, the same... assumptions about life, living, people, how I'm treated, expectations. Culture affects us on so many levels. I've spent so many years trying to make things work with as little in resources as possible that I find having more things available overwhelming. I am accustomed to relying only on people I know well and trust to accomplish things, but here the networks stretch far and wide. It makes me nervous to trust that a friend of a friend of a friend will come through in this or that situation.<br />
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I'm learning more and more how much I desperately need God to walk with me through all of this. My trust should be in him, not in the people anyway. My resources come from him, no matter where I am. He is in control of the many planes circling overhead. I need to rebuild new habits and life patterns, making sure I take the time to spend with him. Because it's only through his help that I can conquer the SELF that cries so strongly for coddling and attention.<br />
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<br />thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-34569381694529957392014-04-27T21:09:00.002-05:002014-04-27T21:09:48.030-05:00Sticky Note<div class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text 1Pet-5-1">So I exhort the elders among you, <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30450A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)"></span>as a fellow elder and <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30450B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)"></span>a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:</span> <span class="text 1Pet-5-2" id="en-ESV-30451"><span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30451C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)"></span>shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you;<span class="footnote" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-ESV-30451b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]"></span> <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30451E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)"></span>not for shameful gain, but eagerly;</span> <span class="text 1Pet-5-3" id="en-ESV-30452">not <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30452F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)"></span>domineering over those in your charge, but <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30452G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)"></span>being examples to the flock.</span> <span class="text 1Pet-5-4" id="en-ESV-30453">And when <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30453H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)"></span>the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30453I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)"></span>unfading <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30453J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)"></span>crown of glory.</span> <span class="text 1Pet-5-5" id="en-ESV-30454">Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30454K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)"></span>Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for <span class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30454L" title="See cross-reference L">L</a>)"></span>“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span class="text 1Pet-5-14"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am very blessed. The elders I have been under have behaved according to this passage. They love the church, serve eagerly, and lead well. Money and status have not been their object. I have learned from them all well. They will receive unfading crowns of glory and I am glad. </span></span></div>
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<span class="text 1Pet-5-14"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I find though, that as I get older that these standards are also things I must apply to myself. These good leaders are to be examples to me and thus I should follow in their footsteps. I also realize more and more that people watch me and emulate me. I still, so often, feel like a foolish little girl struggling to even exist in the world so this all feels terribly odd. But God has given me a responsibility by the gifts and learning he has given me and I must also serve and lead. That said, I am still young and am so very grateful for the mentors and leaders I have. I have many people to learn from and cannot forget that. In all my learning and growth I ought not to think myself greater than I actually am. I must then also be a good example by not being proud.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVar8ZtAfHliXLsEEcpQ_T0zXEM-KLNV9QxRfwaKqxjYOHZI-mhR7wnVbwcxl5tDi6nREAw79g4urmFWik-dOQBQPcazRcGYurn9N4R4PMIOmXv8FJn4FvutRSd_j3bIDcZ5Lxxg/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVar8ZtAfHliXLsEEcpQ_T0zXEM-KLNV9QxRfwaKqxjYOHZI-mhR7wnVbwcxl5tDi6nREAw79g4urmFWik-dOQBQPcazRcGYurn9N4R4PMIOmXv8FJn4FvutRSd_j3bIDcZ5Lxxg/s1600/photo.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thus, humility. Clothe yourselves with humility. Clothe. Am I naked without humility? Or am I merely wearing something else. Do I have a choice here? It sounds like I do. In the morning do I think of putting on humility? Nope. I have often been a proud person. I am smart, but often I think myself smarter that I am, or at least smarter than everyone around me. I am grateful for the men and women God has put in my life that prove me wrong on a regular basis. I am a fool and it is God's grace to me that he never lets my pride get very far before smashing it to bits again. I am thankful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For when I am humbled and then become humble I get to rest in his grace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I'm putting up a sticky note. </span></div>
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thebelovedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00168410603812442780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110961.post-1283469276546967272014-04-26T20:31:00.000-05:002014-04-26T20:31:01.171-05:00Lazy SaturdayIt's completely dark in my house now... except for the arresting white of my computer screen. Somehow it got dark while I sat here; the sun set, I didn't move.<br />
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I feel blah. You know that feeling where you were given a whole day to live and breath and accomplish great things and you did so little. One phone call, one missed call, another call forgotten. A couple of times of eating. I do have a little to show for today. Several inches of afghan suddenly appeared in the dark green yarn. I did catch up on White Collar while the green pineapple shapes spread across my already too warm lap. But that is hardly an accomplishment. I should have weeded the garden even though I don't know what I'll plant there. I should have heated the labels off the wine bottles in my craft room so that I could have turned them into my own crafts. I should have swept the kitchen floor.<br />
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But you know, I could have done all of these things and while it might have taken the edge off of the blah, the deep heart blah would still be there. It's all because I didn't talk to God. Sure, I threw out a few phrases every now and then... maybe that's the wrong way to put it. Sure, I talked to God. But I didn't <i>LISTEN</i>. I didn't read his word, or open my heart in the quiet stillness, or sit on his lap and just be. And that is why I'm blah, today.<br />
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I have no life if I hear not the author of life. There is still time in the day. I could take care of the garden, the floor, or even tackle those bottles. But a few hours of work and a night's rest won't dispel the fog in my heart.<br />
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Off I go. This dragon will die. I know a good knight who will fight for me.<br />
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