I find it amazing 
how we allow our lives to be sacrificed on the alter of 'busyness'. Some people miss their entire lives while they run to complete their to-do lists! What an amazing gift to wake up to yourself one day and declare that you will begin to finally live; that you will embrace your life, devour it and savour every part! (Joy is easy, but don't be so quick to refuse the blessing of sorrow!!)
The process of waking up often includes the view from that alter. It is from here that we experience the sad realization that we have passed each other by before we have embraced who the other really is. We missed the stories that make people who they are. We so often fail to really see and hear each other. We start to see people as bodies moving through time rather than souls that Christ has brought into our lives to pass on blessing or to be blessed.
Waking up to my life has happened several times and I don't anticipate that will change. How often do we fall back to sleep while living the grind of day to day life? (Father, please keep nudging me awake when I tend to drift away again!!) I am sorry if I missed your story. I know that some I have pushed away while drowning in my own sorrow or excitement; while pushing my own need to be seen or heard. How tragic to get lost in one's own selfishness. I am sorry. I hope that if you ever find your way back to me that I will be able to hear you and share your story.
Your story is you. It is worthy of being shared. Don't let it be missed! There is none like you! If we weren't meant to share stories we'd live on our own little planets! (God had the power to do that, but He put us here: together!)
Accept what Christ brings to you. Sometimes people will come to share their stories. Sometimes they will come to hear yours, but don't miss it!! It is through each other that we are so often offered the opportunity to grow! Allow yourself to know others. Allow others the blessing of knowing you.
I honestly believe that you can learn to love anyone if you could but set aside your judgements of who others may be and really learn to see and hear each other. Imagine how we could touch lives by offering such a gift?!
Please know that just because I might author these words, I, by no means have it all together or figured out. I am but another on the journey brailing my way though the world I find myself in. I do know this much: The alters we so often we lay upon, whether it be selfishness or busyness or addiction or judgement or self-pity - they are life depleting! Oh! To be free of such chains!! Don't miss your life. Don't miss that which Christ longs to bless you with. Don't miss the stories of those He brings to you. Experience life fully!
how we allow our lives to be sacrificed on the alter of 'busyness'. Some people miss their entire lives while they run to complete their to-do lists! What an amazing gift to wake up to yourself one day and declare that you will begin to finally live; that you will embrace your life, devour it and savour every part! (Joy is easy, but don't be so quick to refuse the blessing of sorrow!!)The process of waking up often includes the view from that alter. It is from here that we experience the sad realization that we have passed each other by before we have embraced who the other really is. We missed the stories that make people who they are. We so often fail to really see and hear each other. We start to see people as bodies moving through time rather than souls that Christ has brought into our lives to pass on blessing or to be blessed.
Waking up to my life has happened several times and I don't anticipate that will change. How often do we fall back to sleep while living the grind of day to day life? (Father, please keep nudging me awake when I tend to drift away again!!) I am sorry if I missed your story. I know that some I have pushed away while drowning in my own sorrow or excitement; while pushing my own need to be seen or heard. How tragic to get lost in one's own selfishness. I am sorry. I hope that if you ever find your way back to me that I will be able to hear you and share your story.
Your story is you. It is worthy of being shared. Don't let it be missed! There is none like you! If we weren't meant to share stories we'd live on our own little planets! (God had the power to do that, but He put us here: together!)
Accept what Christ brings to you. Sometimes people will come to share their stories. Sometimes they will come to hear yours, but don't miss it!! It is through each other that we are so often offered the opportunity to grow! Allow yourself to know others. Allow others the blessing of knowing you.
I honestly believe that you can learn to love anyone if you could but set aside your judgements of who others may be and really learn to see and hear each other. Imagine how we could touch lives by offering such a gift?!
Please know that just because I might author these words, I, by no means have it all together or figured out. I am but another on the journey brailing my way though the world I find myself in. I do know this much: The alters we so often we lay upon, whether it be selfishness or busyness or addiction or judgement or self-pity - they are life depleting! Oh! To be free of such chains!! Don't miss your life. Don't miss that which Christ longs to bless you with. Don't miss the stories of those He brings to you. Experience life fully!
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