How do you feel about adventure? For some of us, it is such a powerful desire that we will pay good money for "virtual adventure" (and that menu of possibilities is vast). For others, the equally compelling desire draws us regularly to unknown, spontaneous treks. We go wherever the wind or the weather blow us. For still others, standing on the brink of the unknown generates nothing but backward movement -- better to stay with the tried and true... the familiar.
In just over a week we will be entering our Lenten Adventure. I want to invite you to cross into the unknown territory of a 2012 Lenten Spiritual Community. Will you join me? It is sure to be a place of unforeseen places of the heart, mind and soul.
I have been reading a book about the unspoken but increasing desires of the Body of Christ for spiritual community -- but when what we focus upon, lament or celebrate is our "surface" existence rather than what is really going on, we miss a huge opportunity to see and witness to what God is doing in our midst and in our life together. Therefore, I am looking for ways to plumb the depths of history -- YOUR history -- so that you can reap the benefit of all that God has given you over the years. Much of that will feel like adventure -- because God is so dynamic, so mysterious, and so interested in increasing your wisdom and understanding about YOU, and about God, and about how you are constantly being formed in new and unimaginable ways.
I have been reading a book about the unspoken but increasing desires of the Body of Christ for spiritual community -- but when what we focus upon, lament or celebrate is our "surface" existence rather than what is really going on, we miss a huge opportunity to see and witness to what God is doing in our midst and in our life together. Therefore, I am looking for ways to plumb the depths of history -- YOUR history -- so that you can reap the benefit of all that God has given you over the years. Much of that will feel like adventure -- because God is so dynamic, so mysterious, and so interested in increasing your wisdom and understanding about YOU, and about God, and about how you are constantly being formed in new and unimaginable ways.
Every person is given multiple opportunities to enter adventurous places of the heart, mind and soul. Most people don't go "there" readily. Many folks don't go there until years or decades after events and relationships are "really" a part of the past.
I am convinced more than ever that life's adventures are meant to strengthen us to glorify God and serve others in new ways. It is just that those "adventures" can be so daunting if a person tries to minimize them or go them "alone"... or even worse, pretend they aren't happening. Whenever a person enters his/her own uncharted territory (we all have them) suddenly new perceptions of both dark and light appear.
Christ is there with us, when we are suffering as well as when we are bursting into new hope. It is always, always about being drawn into God's amazing and loving heart -- constantly being reshaped, reformed -- made new.
I pray that you will join me! Stay tuned....
Christ is there with us, when we are suffering as well as when we are bursting into new hope. It is always, always about being drawn into God's amazing and loving heart -- constantly being reshaped, reformed -- made new.
I pray that you will join me! Stay tuned....
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