I hear You calling...

I've been searching for things I didn't know were searchable. Questions I always had that were dismissed as "we can't and don't know." Then I find a trail I was drawn to full of tiny answers that exploded in my mind like the most amazing expression of love and realness and fullness. I found a quiet place in the path to stop and think about everything. Process time. I needed a break from all the information that I know I still haven't fully comprehended. Weeks later with friends seeing what I'm seeing.... I took a huge leap and went into uncharted deep water. I needed to know. I had to know. It wasn't acceptable not to know any longer. I felt led to read. The book called to me from the basement totes. I had read it before. I needed to read it again. I never went to dig through my totes. I could still feel it pulling me. We went to the Goodwill for Allie to spend birthday money. Danny and I just roamed around playing with stuff. I glanced at the books to see if I saw anything educational. There it was. Screaming right at me like a love note begging to be ripped open and read with absurd anticipation. The book. I bought it for $.50.... saved myself the trouble of digging through my totes. My mind is blown. Reading this book with new eyes. It's a completely different book. It's gospel. Amazing news. His mercy is literally new every single day. I am overwhelmed with His presence that I can't explain it. In Him I move, breath, and have my being. Totally free. I have everything I thought I had been missing. Pieces I needed to continue down this path. I'm ready. Let's go! Let's go! The journey is grand!!! It is NOTHING like I was told. It's more. So much more. #detox #rambles

Think about it...

"I’m paging through a travel magazine that features safaris in Africa. The pictures are stunning… and normally I would find these images very engaging, yet I skim through the magazine with little interest. The reason is simple: I’m sitting a few feet away from a campfire overlooking a vast african landscape. The magazine is thrown to one side as I notice the elephants that have just arrived at the watering hole, about 50 meters in front of us. Being in the middle of this experience renders the magazine irrelevant."

#detox #idols #profound #relationship

Who are we listening to again?

"In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects."

#detox

Mind Blown

"Nobody wanted God in a box, just a book. Especially an expensive one bound in leather with gilt edges, or was that guilt edges?" #detox

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

"I no longer try and make Jesus fit the Bible, but let the Bible fit around Jesus. I see Jesus, calling us out of our boat-like systems, onto the water where we can stand, against all logic and laws – with our eyes on him."

Yessssss!!! #detox

Word made flesh

"In every religion and philosophy- word remains word, religion remains a theory, and philosophy remains a guess. But in Jesus Christ, the Word is made flesh, reality is revealed – God’s thought is concluded in human life. The ultimate destiny of the Word, was never a book or an institution, but the image and likeness of God displayed in human life."

#detox #reflection #perfectexample

Sin isn't kryptonite to God

"When God became a man, He did not pursue sinners to destroy them. He did not run sinners off. He attracted them! How different is God from the traditions we've developed vainly in His name! Sinners found the company of Jesus attractive because they found value there, they discovered their true selves there, they discovered a greater reality than sin – their true design and being in Him."

If sinners aren't drawn to you... then you aren't reflecting Jesus. Sin isn't kryptonite to God. He doesn't buckle under the presence of wrong. He doesn't strike it down with his condemning finger pointing. He overshadows it with love. His fullness washes it away. God is not a fault finder. He wants relationship even with our faults. He can handle it. Why can't we? #detox