Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
DOWN SIZING!
After being at desk for almost 2 years, I decided to get rid of it! I wanted something small, and something that wouldn't collect clutter. Well after asking around, I decided to join my friend Joe Johns, in purchasing an Air Desk. I am really enjoying and it really opened up my office space!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
HELL IN THE HALLWAYS
A few years ago, I heard Joseph Garlington say, "when God closes one door He opens another, but it's hell in the hallways!". The hallway is the in the in between state, the halfway point in our journey! This describes my experience of Great Lent this year. I recognize that in Christ I am complete, but I still must allow Christ to be "complete" in me. St. Paul wrote to the community of the faithful in Galatia, “I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you”(Galatians 4:19 NKJV). This is in fact the original call of humanity, to be the Image and Likeness of God. All of us despite where we are in life, are made in the Image of God. However, through sin, pain, hurt and other things we have become unlike God. Lent is a "season" of community repentance, it is an awakening. As we move towards Pascha (Easter Sunday), Lent represents a hallway of sorts, an in between place. It helps us to recognize that I am not, in order that we may become. It is the Journey of the Prodigal Son from a far country back to his father's house. At the Prodigals lowest point of being inhumane, he contemplates on eating pig slop, but at that point he has an awakening, he comes to himself! In a moment of self-reflection he realizes it just makes plain sense to go home. This lent I have had many painful awakenings about where I am in life, and by God's grace I'm on my way home!
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