As we’ve talked about seeing this week, I realized how often Jesus speaks of eyes and light and seeing. I tried to do a search to see how many blind people Jesus heals in the good news stories we have but often the writers simply say he healed many who were blind or lame orContinue reading “People and Trees”
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Seeing as God Sees
As we answer Jesus’ invitation to follow him, we learn to see the world as God sees it. We see the good, we see others with compassion and are moved to help God heal the hurt, bring loving order into the confusion, and point the way toward God for those who are lost.
Finding Good or Finding Bad
Our responses to the events of life come from what we choose to see – our fellow human beings created in God’s image with struggles and joys just as we have or others whom we are in competition with and must defeat in one way or another. If we look for the good – and God – we will find it. If we look for what’s wrong, we will find it.
Seeing Clearly
In Matthew’s telling of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says to the crowds, “Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye,Continue reading “Seeing Clearly”
Lord, My Lord
The way of life that Jesus shows us isn’t about control but about growing in relationship with the very One who gave us the gift of free-will to choose love and life as it is intended for us or to go our own way.
Our Mortal Nature
God created each and every one of us to live in loving relationship with God. Developing the wisdom that we are the created and God is our creator doesn’t take away our value or worth, it unmasks our invaluableness (is that a word?).
Who’s Driving?
As we discover these roadblocks we’ve put between the person we think we need to be and the person God created as an integral part of God’s kingdom-on-earth plan, we will find the freedom and abundance of life we are seeking
Being Signs
Being godly doesn’t mean we are “in charge” or better than others. We can’t let our egos get away with such thoughts. We’ll never be God. We’ll never be divine. But we do have the God-given ability to reflect God to others, to let others see the God-image in us, not for our own glory but for the benefit of God’s entire kingdom.
Signs along the Way
The signs of God’s kingdom on earth are all around us and in us, if we choose to pay attention to them, even when they are pointing out what we don’t want to see or hear.
Let us Begin Together
Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. What a depressing opening, Mother Nancy! Can’t we be more positive? Didn’t you say Jesus came to show us the abundance of LIFE? Why do you even need to talk about this mortality thing? We could talk for hours about how our culture triesContinue reading “Let us Begin Together”
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