Happy Monday. Some thoughts on gatekeeping and allowing ourselves access to the freedom of the Spirit!
Tag: Freedom
Rest Your Neighbor (As Yourself)
“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don’t do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.” – Exodus 20:8-11 MSG No, we aren’t in…
A Cure For Existing on Fumes
“For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.” Exodus 20:9-11 MSG “And maybe that it is what the Sabbath is meant to do for us: Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone else.” – Abraham Heschel, The Sabbath Yes, friend. Go…
God is Space
“Light, space, zest— that’s God! So, with him on my side I’m fearless, afraid of no one and nothing.” Psalm 27:1 MSG inhale (Yah) exhale (weh) Do you feel it? Your lungs fill with air with space, the very breath of God inside you. Who was it who tried to squeeze the air from you, box you in with tape, ropes, and fear? Or — have you done it to yourself? Definition self /self/ 1. not worth taking up space 2. lowers voice to a whisper 3. vantage point, silent Slowly, you’ve shrunk into a wee size box, folded in…
Love Beyond Belief
Creator God, Your love has no beginning or end. As a circle embraces, so does your love. Sure as the ocean tide, it rushes. Steady as a stream, it flows. Certain as a shadow that follows my form, your love is present. Continuous as four seasons, it is constant. Your love greets me as a sliver of sunlight each morning and sparkles over me as stars when dusk falls. You made the fingerprint, you celebrate unique! Your variety of people, animals, rocks, plants and beyond overwhelm! Goodness spills over. Your love is color blind. Your love isn’t based on merit….