Sometimes, when I’m tired, I plug Psalm 23 into the front of my mind and chant it until I start praying it unconsciously. It’s a reminder of who my heavenly father is and that the Creator God is generous. He is patient with us and invites us into his family.…
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Actively engaging in the dark parts of the world to bring healing and reconciliation takes energy. It takes more energy than you have. You cannot be an ambassador of reconciliation based in your own strength.
The people through history who go before us and have walked with Jesus as examples of hope and healing are most often people with practices and habits that humbled them to listen to God and follow him. Follow the creator on his mission to reconnect all things. This is what spiritual practices are for.
Spiritual practices create space in our day and habits in our lives to hear God. Time to know how much he adores us and embraces us fully. It’s only in knowing that we are loved and accepted that we can go out and love and serve others without selfishness.
I don’t know who said it but the quote I’ve been hearing in my head the last months is that “We humans need to hear and feel how much God loves us. Once we have that, we can stop doing stupid things to try and feel that love and acceptance from someone else and we can get on with loving other people.”
I think making space to find out that God really does love us is the goal of spiritual practices. Once we have that, we can get on with the reconnecting, peacemaking and reconciling part of God’s mission in his world.
I had a very disciplined prayer life 10 years ago. I was confident that I was learning to pray like Jesus. During my gap year I would get up early, eat a big bowl of oatmeal and dig through my bible for new insights. I felt like Jesus or one…
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The Ancient people who wrote the scriptures believed that water, the ocean was a place of chaos and home for evil. This was the home of all that opposes order and God’s good creation. We see that oppose of this in the creation narrative where God creates order and brings order out of the ocean by using his athrity to shape it. In the same way as the creation story to Jesus shows his sovereignty over this chaotic storm in this narrative.
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