Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 13
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
Too often the ones who should be ‘making plain the way of the LORD’ are cluttering it with Points of Order, procedural motions, and a general antagonism towards their siblings.
Too often we find ourselves so busy and, to be honest, self-involved, that we can’t stop and check that everyone is really all-right.
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
‘Getting thin’ as anyone slimming coach will let you know, takes a lifestyle change and learning a different attitude to ourselves as much as more care about our diet.
I (we?) need to learn, unlike Pooh Bear, to be a little more nimble and better able to response to human need before selfish greed.
Lent is given to us so that we may have the opportunity to love one another more deeply through the means of loving ourselves a little bit less.
Fasting is not about giving up on stuff but instead is about giving up on the direction we face.
We have power to become Children of God and are challenged to choose between being Childish – a brat of Beelzebub – or childlike – a Kidult of the Kingdom.
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