New step

Here we are at the onset of the new year. Thought that some things would be different but pretty much everything happened just the way the sponsor always says "people get pretty much what they sign up for" maybe that's the wisdom that I have been looking for, maybe that's the big break that I have been looking. That's just the softer version of saying that we are manufactures of our own misery. I think somewhere out in information land someone said something like such as a man thinks so is he. With that said I think that I may need more help this year than I thought because those patterns of thought are hard to break. I thing I like what Oswald Chambers says in today's devotion. "Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ." Thanks for being with me for the year may this next year bring more "Bury wisdom".

A GIFT

The formation of community is the intricate, patient, painful work of the Holy Spirit. We cannot buy or make community; we can only offer ourselves to become community.
                            -Larry Crabb-

Just participating in relationship and connection I become a gift. Just "suiting up and showing up" is the hard part for me today.  The messy part of spiritual relationship is enough to make me minimize risk or play it safe. The messy spiritual life, the unknown, the powerless situations the sudden disturbance of all that I thought was going good in my life. The crazy intent that lashes forth when things are not going how I thought they should. That same resentment that never goes away no matter how much prayer is given for that person  place or thing. That person  you really don't care for and you don't understand why but there they are and suddenly the gift of gab has left. Even though I experience the messy spiritual life being a part of community I become that needed and valuable asset to others the only requirement is my participation and connection.   

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Friendship

"To be so much in contact with God that you never need to ask Him to show you His will, is to be nearing the final stage of your discipline in the life of faith. When you are rightly related to God, it is a life of freedom and liberty and delight, you are God’s will, and all your commonsense decisions are His will for you. The point of asking is that you may get to know God better."
                        Oswald Chambers, (1927). My Utmost for His Highest

The greatest thing to have in life is a good friend. One that has been with you in good times and bad. The hard work for me today is to keep working at those relationships even just the thought will go a long ways. Its hard for me to understand that God wants to be that for me. Today is one of those days when I have understood how happy that makes me.

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Silence

What a privilege it has been to be able to quiet the self and mind. I think of the busyness that causes me to live in silence to those that I love.

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