April

I don’t know where my soul is.

I don’t know where my home is.

I find my soul and home in Christ.  Sometimes.  And then I lose them again.

I’m a human person and I can’t imagine reaching the perfection of truly loving everyone else as much as I love myself.  We seem to be made self-centered, and try to overcome the self-interest by following Christ’s example of all-accepting love.

There have been times when I have felt almost self-less.  With one other person.  With the intimacy that comes of relationship.  It is the give and take of relationship that takes us out of ourselves and into the love of god.

Life is all about relationship.  We are made to be with others.

As much as I love my introverted self, I can’t be whole without others.  Sure, I can call myself an observer, a people-watcher.  But I need to interact.

God made my and declared that creation ‘good.’  The first relationship—creator and created.

There needs to be beauty.  There is a rhythm and balance in creation—light/dark, order/chaos.

I am a creator.  A balancer.  I seek order (although not the kind of order that is boxed and stagnant.  Those who know me, know that I don’t just think outside the box—I don’t even know there IS a box!).  But there is order everywhere, and I don’t think god meant it to be defined and organized into stagnation.  There is order in change and movement that is beautiful beyond something fixed in time or place. 

I create and balance to bring people into God.  Into discovery of their goodness and worth.  Into knowing, KNOWING they were created in love and are always loved.

Someone told me recently that they couldn’t talk to others about Christ.  It was too personal, too overwhelming, too emotional.

Too emotional?!  Of course it's emotional!  You tell me that Jesus saved you.  That Christ is everything to you.  That Christ is LIFE.

How can emotion be inappropriate?!

Laugh.  Cry.  Dance and sing.

FEEL.  Take it.  Pass it on.  LOVE unconditionally.

Be at peace.