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Ahh... Normality.
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Life seemed to be settling into a steady pace of existence for a little while...
Then the HS let me in on a little secret:
My life isn't normal, really. I often desire to just have a normal life. To move back home, go back to school, get a fun job, earn some money, pay back my loans, eat well, spend time with good friends, and just live an enjoyable life. I desire a nice, easy, safe, enjoyable life. It would be so peaceful and so... simple.
I had been adjusting to some routine, some bit of schedule and structure in my life. Have been at the new apartment and the new job for about a month. The loft is looking nice and beginning to feel like home, a place of peace, comfort and refuge from the city just outside our windows. Still need a bookshelf, but all else has come together nicely. The workplace I've gotten a fairly good handle on... Have learned a tremendous amount in a short period of time and have been feeling comfortable and confident in that arena.
Most of us sit around and let the majority of life happen to us. Sure we'll pursue certain avenues, and may step outside of ourselves for a time... but if change confronts us it is generally from an external source acting upon our lives.
I say "sure, God uses me," and this is a true statement. God comes up with ways that he can insert opportunities into my scheduled-in, fairly normal life. Mostly these opportunities are pretty narrow, given the parameters I have set up to allow only certain external influences to present themselves to me... but God's a pretty creative being and finds interesting ways of giving us these opportunities to act.
Now, I wonder, what kind of opportunities would be made available if I pursued God's creativity, fully with no restraint, rather than Him having to sneak it into the cracks and crevices of my all-important routined life? This is a very large part of this Open Life that I am pursuing at the moment. What do you say to giving God no parameters?
Live an Open Life.
I'd like to say I am an active member of the Body of Jesus Christ all the time. But many times and all to often do I fall short. We revert to a passive existence. Waiting for God to do something amazing in our lives, but not making the choice to get up, go out, and actively pursue our own participation in (heaven forbid our own initiation of!) these amazing things. We look for programs or organizations that are already doing pretty good things and see how we can help them out while putting forth the least amount of effort at our own involvement.
Is it that we don't believe that We, individually, have been uniquely called and commanded to take initiative and action on behalf of those things that we claim we believe? If we don't believe we are capable of these things, we're proclaiming that Christ is a liar and deceiver, and when he challenges us to be his disciples he doesn't really mean what he says, and he doesn't really have the power to empower us to do these things in his Name.
Bunk.
Jesus is who he says he is, and he can do what he says he can do. And he told us that we will do greater things than he did. And I believe that is absolutely true.
[Contemplations of an Open Life (part fourteen)]
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