peeps.
debra.
lindsay.
marta.
jen t.
kendra.
jen l.
rachel.
hoefer.
andrea.
cassidy.
eric.
stacey.
adam.
ben.
johnson.
billy.
chris.
julie.
heather.
faith.
eunice.
kyunksook.
dannah.
rosie.
peeps in my life who know me well.
thanks God for people in my life.
i had a sweet conversation today with an old friend, ben. amazing. i am so thankful God loves us too much to leave us where we are at. yet drags us through much crap in order to purify us. isn't that odd? we have to get all crapified before we can know him better. is the extent to which you feel pain and are broken necceisarly related to how close you walk with God? i am beginning to wonder. you could begin to get a twisted view of God...and that only if life sucks does God love you. that's not true.
i went to a church service the other day which definitely draws the brokenhearted. it's almost if you aren't sad...your heart must not be right before God. but...in other places i've been if you don't have a smile on your face...you must not be right before God. wht's the balance? how do you cultivate a place for both of these types of people? how do you meet people where they are at? how do you grab people out of their pity parties and excite them to the joy they should have in Christ? but...sometimes a contrite spirit is what is right...and where one should be. how do you take one jubilant person and show them how having a broken spirit/humble before God is important just like dancing in joy before the throne? um...these questions don't have answers. and i didn't think before i started writing so i excercise the right to take back anything i said within this post.
lindsay.
marta.
jen t.
kendra.
jen l.
rachel.
hoefer.
andrea.
cassidy.
eric.
stacey.
adam.
ben.
johnson.
billy.
chris.
julie.
heather.
faith.
eunice.
kyunksook.
dannah.
rosie.
peeps in my life who know me well.
thanks God for people in my life.
i had a sweet conversation today with an old friend, ben. amazing. i am so thankful God loves us too much to leave us where we are at. yet drags us through much crap in order to purify us. isn't that odd? we have to get all crapified before we can know him better. is the extent to which you feel pain and are broken necceisarly related to how close you walk with God? i am beginning to wonder. you could begin to get a twisted view of God...and that only if life sucks does God love you. that's not true.
i went to a church service the other day which definitely draws the brokenhearted. it's almost if you aren't sad...your heart must not be right before God. but...in other places i've been if you don't have a smile on your face...you must not be right before God. wht's the balance? how do you cultivate a place for both of these types of people? how do you meet people where they are at? how do you grab people out of their pity parties and excite them to the joy they should have in Christ? but...sometimes a contrite spirit is what is right...and where one should be. how do you take one jubilant person and show them how having a broken spirit/humble before God is important just like dancing in joy before the throne? um...these questions don't have answers. and i didn't think before i started writing so i excercise the right to take back anything i said within this post.
posted by lp at 9:32 PM
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Just be yourself and walk in his footsteps.
YES!! I made the list! ROCK ON! I shall dance with jubilee but with a contrite spirit. :-)
I'm totally not making fun...just agreeing. You're beauitful!
The church can be so confusing, especially to new believers or those who are trying to figure stuff out and find their way...as we all, in some sense, are. And we wonder why so many people don't go to church.
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