“Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.” - Luke 3:11
Pabama: (Rhymes with Alabama) Def: A feeling that there is more. A desire to make a difference, to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Not willing to accept the current state of the world, and not wishing to point any fingers. The burning desire to improve, to fall and fail, to be picked up and try again. To prepare ourselves for eternity. To stand triumphant one day, only through Jesus, and hear, "Well done, my good and faithful servant."

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Misinterpreting Life

A little something from the book that started the kayak trips .... (relevant simply because we have one coming soon)

Most of us have been misinterpreting life and what God is doing for a long time. "I think I'm just trying to get God to make my life work easier," a client of mine confessed, but he could have been speaking for most of us. We're asking the wrong questions. Most of us are asking, "God, why did you let this happen to me?" Or, "God, why won't you just ________" (fill in the blank-help me succeed, get my kids to straighten out, fix my marriage-you know what you've been whining about).
But to enter into a journey of initiation with God requires a new set of questions: What are you trying to teach me here? What issues in my heart are you trying to raise through this? What is it you want me to see? What are you asking me to let go of ? In truth, God has been trying to initiate you for a long time. What is in the way is how you've mishandled your wound and the life you've constructed as a result.

Wild at Heart
Get Some Nuts!

1 comment:

Chad said...

"What is in the way is how you've mishandled your wound and the life you've constructed as a result." Yep, pretty much.
I've certainly got some tougher questions to ask my Lord and Savior...
Thanks for the post Dyk!
-Mitchem

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