thank god it is friday!!!
it is about 10 p.m. -- pretty cool, but not as cold as last night...
jeep and i just finished our daily 3 miles...
maybe we will celebrate the weekend by doing 4 or 5 miles on saturday and sunday...
i am at a BARRIER of 270 pounds [down from 315 since september] -- i must do something to break through -- my goal is 269 by monday a.m.
that will leave me ONLY 69 pounds to lose [to reach my goal of 200 by september 2011]...
oh well, one day at a time sweet jesus...
tonight, we consider the SHALLOW soil...
"other seed fell among rocks. it began to grow, but the plant soon wilted and died for lack of moisture..."
"the seeds on the rocky soil represent those who hear the message and receive it with joy. but since they don't have deep roots, they believe for a while, then they fall away when they face temptation..."
what leaves us with a SHALLOW heart???
depth of soil demands a faith of the head, the heart and the hands -- a life characterized by sharpness of intellect, the fire of spiritual experience and the commitment to serve others with god's love of another kind...
the head alone is inauthentic...and SHALLOW...it gets lost in theory and puffed up with arrogance...
the heart alone is inauthentic...and SHALLOW...it gets lost in bizarre behavior and can lose touch with [withdraw from] the very world the father so deeply loves...
the hands alone are inauthentic...and SHALLLOW...they can lose sight of salvation by grace alone and lose intimacy with jesus through compulsion to "fix" everything for god...
sometimes OUR works make it more about us than about god -- NOT!!!
in my opinion, much of our temptation in christianity is to be extreme -- to be out of balance in the areas we most gravitate towards -- we seldom commit fully to all 3 Hs...
our thing is usually seen as THE thing...
we are taught this [unfortunately] by our faith traditions from our very earliest ages because they often believe and teach that THEIR deal is really the ONLY deal...
maybe it would be better for all of us to love each other [and our heritages] and LEARN from each other...
we could learn so much from the catholics -- especially the franciscans -- about service...
we could learn so much from presbyterians and baptists about valuing theology and studying the word...
we could learn so much from pentecostals and charismatics about worship and hearts set aflame with intimate love for god...
maybe we should embrace the creative tension [i hate the word balance] between head, heart and hands -- pursuing each rather than just our "pet" that strokes our comfort zone...
the only thing we should be totally radical about is loving god [as father, jesus and spirit] with all our heads, hearts and hands... and loving those who already know jesus and loving those who are yet to love jesus...
we are recognized by our LOVE!!!
time to leave the SHALLOW behind -- the call is to depth...
soil [and hearts] that have the fullness to GO THE DISTANCE...
i am in -- fully in...
will you join me in this journey to wholeness, fullness and depth [substance]???
have a great weekend...
guy
anyone else headed to the Third Day concert at the Sun Dome on sunday p.m.???
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