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Here is the blah floating around in my mind today…
- I am super hyped about this “live it out” series. It is a slow motion view of what it means to follow Christ. What does it look like to serve selflessly, cultivate community, give generously, and worship wholeheartedly? What does it look like to actually live out the ways of Jesus?
- I think I yelled a lot yesterday…seems to be true when I am most passionate about some truth…I hope it comes across as sincerity and passion. I will warn you…the next three weeks are filled with the same…a calling to live out the ways of Jesus.
- Two lines from yesterday that people keep quoting back to me…”I don’t even like feet!” and “I feel like a donkey.” You should know that only one of those lines came from me.
- The wisdom of a 4 year old: This past week for some reason I decided to ask Sam what makes him happy…he didn’t hesitant and replied, “Nothing makes me happy, I make me happy.” Hhmmm…
- I am learning that perhaps one of the hardest ways to “live it out” is within Christian community. To cultivate community with the church isn’t going to be easy. To build community means to lead people to think about the needs of others before they think about their own needs. It means to ask for people to sacrifice, to learn to appreciate the discomfort of being with people who aren’t like us. It means that we must die to ourselves for the sake of others, to understand that community is a greater goal than our own individuals needs/wishes. Living it out isn’t always fun and easy.
- Read this somewhere, “Love is always right…but always being right isn’t love.”
- I am needing some good summer reading…do you have any suggestions? It has been a long time since I read fiction. Also would love to read some history…or maybe a good biography.
Categories: Monday Morning Musings
Shane,
When I saw your request for reading suggestions the librarian in me perked up and I thought I’d pass on some of my favorites. Three are biography and one fiction but all are well written.
1. Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) by Marguerite Yourcenar
2. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1997) by Joseph J. Ellis
3. A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (2008) by George M. Marsden
4. The Last American Man (2002) by Elizabeth Gilbert
Hope you have a great summer!
Best,
Josh
What wisdom Mr. Sam has. I love his insight. He is such a joy to have in the preschool dept. I’m bummed I don’t get to have him in my age group any more.
Shane, sorry I missed your yelling. Hope you keep it up!
If you were a girl, I would suggest Little Women or Redeeming Love or maybe even Pride and Prejudice. But you’re a boy. Have you read the Hiding Place? I’m sure you have but it’s a great one to read over again. I have a few chapters of Mere Christianity left. I’m reading a chapter about pride. Hmmm, that kind of fits in with the Live It Out series.
Well,
I just finished ‘blue like jazz’ and am currently reading ‘searching for God knows what’ but everybody and their dogs has read those, so can’t help you there.
What Sam said, is so awesome and so true.