I haven't been blogging because I've been trying to figure out how everything fits together so I could present it as a fair and surpassing Whole. But.... well, turns out I'm finite. SO! Having been inspired by Miss Elisabeth to simply string what I've got on a single strand and let you sort it out, here are a couple of few that have surprised me lately:
*The other day (for reasons I will not go into here) I started looking for similarities between Jesus and I. You know, those similarities found by lovers as they compare notes over the same type of coffee in matching mugs. "I love that we're exactly the same!" etc, ad nauseum. Well, other people besides me are like Him too; I'm always falling in love with people for something or other and invariably it's a quality that takes its goodness and origin from the heart of God. So, what in people remind me of Jesus? Take that Miss Elisabeth for example: her staggering tenacity and perseverance through hard things makes me think of Jesus. Blows me away.
*Loving Jesus is like being in a long distance relationship. Which has perks (brilliant love letters) and detractions (can't see Him). I'm really looking forward to seeing Him.
*Compassion is tricky. As I thought about it I realized it takes an act of judgment to show compassion because I first have to determine that someone is worthy of compassion. At first I thought that was a bad thing. But then I realized that making a judgment is a neutral. It's only when condemnation (or unseemly preference) is added to it that it becomes bad. Or when the comparison is only made to myself. If I can learn to compare people to Jesus' "normal" and split the hairs between judgment and condemnation, things would be better. I might learn true compassion.
*I've posted new fun stuff on my art blog. ☺
That'll do for today. More later.
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1 comment:
Very good word. Thank you. I needed that very much!
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