but after that i am so far from sometimes even being good - i will try not to ever judge others.
I hold on to something given to me a long time ago,
maybe because i know i have a problem with pride and haughtiness.
from the haunting, grasping
insecurity that causes us to run from others.
Brokenness releases us from
the clutch of fear that grips us in strife and intense defensiveness. It is God's love manifested through a human
soul; its tender compassion make obsolete the cold hard assertion of person or
position.
Brokenness is responding in
faith when the situation clearly offers defeat; it is overcoming the hurt and refusing the anger caused by a beloved's
insensitivity.
Brokenness requires
trust: it means drawing very close to
the Father, trusting that He loves you and is showering His mercy upon you.
Humility loves in the face
of unlove. it empowers us to be
self-effacing; it allows us to consider others better than ourselves.
Humility stands defenseless
before an accuser, neither needing nor preparing an answer.
Humility does not
remonstrate or agitate; it quietly confirms that a man can die to himself.
Humility allows the response
of Jesus, the Son of God. It gives
access into powerful and creative suffering
reference reading: Zephaniah 3:11-13
The Lord Jesus was gentle
and humble, despising not people, but sin.
As God's Son He and unfathomed authority and power, yet He was so meek
that small children approached him eagerly and fearlessly. Though we have been given the treasure of
Christ, we are human and some of the markings of our humanity are
hard-heartedness and pride. We often
esteem ourselves superior, not just to unbelievers, but also to each
other. the Lord, in His tender love,
has committed Himself to making us holy, the working in our personalities and
lives the godliness that we know in His Son.
okay, so you get a glimpse...
then i mix science with this and things become more unusual...
Yes, i believe in an evolutionary process, with God directing all the way, but then i get into physics...
We have classical physics, which describes what we see, experience and measure and it seems very orderly.
Then we have quantum physics, which describes thing at the sub-atomic level, what we can not see, and it breaks down into probability?
That is amazingly wonderful and tells me,
for all those who which to put God into some box and limit who He is,
you can not limit God nor can we ever really know Him...
This gets me back to that song that i have to get on MP3 for you.
Isaiah 40:12 - Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?
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Hope you have a peaceful Easter. Cheers from Carole's chatter
Until Easter Sunday morning, I can only concentrate on the fact that even today there are still those that would crucify him and inflict such horrible pain again and again with the same vile hatred and distrust and meaningless vengeance today.
i am reading a book by Hu Hsin. these same sentiments are underlined by him as well. and again by Simone Weil, who refused to function solely as a christian apart from the diversity of beliefs. which leads me to think that they are beyond religious demarcation and point to the truth of the human experience, christianity being one expression of god's word. they feel beautiful and right, how we should resist the power and lure of our egos and instead practice humility. (and it is a practice, not an arrival point. how often i fail.)
for me too there is room for science in mystery. how foolish we are to think otherwise.
two of the most important ideas Hu Hsin imparts is that "nothing is as it seems" and that we can not say in full the unsayable. if we keep these thins i mind we have no choice but to keep an open mind and to see our small place inside the mystery.
much love to you this easter weekend and always, joey))
xo
erin
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