We participate in a small group fellowship/study on Tuesday nights and right now we are working our way thru a series of Rob Bell videos. Each and every one of these has provoked great conversation and a little bit of new perspective about, say, rubber balls or planting trees....last night we watched "Breathe". The main idea I gleaned from this....when we breathe in the Spirit of GOD we must breathe out other things taking up space inside of us....the question posed....what do we need to breathe out? The first time I watched this one, I thought....well, not much....I have plenty of room for the Spirit in there...then I watched again and realized that I have some exhaling to do. There are so many small grievances I hold inside...whether it be the alarm clock ringing or the kids giggling well after bedtime....the frustations of life, I just need to let them go....breathe out.
AND our sermon last Sunday also hit home. One point was based on the verse "Love is not provoked". I never thought too much about that...thats why it was part of a sermon....but I realize that I allow myself to be provoked by the little annoyances....my name repeated, well, repeatedly....my kids inability to follow a two step direction. Our pastor challenged us.....each time you want to say "I feel angry, frustrated, irritated, annoyed" replace those words with "unloving" see how many times a day you feel unloving...its disturbing....we kind of made a joke of it....my husband will say "you sound very unloving" and I respond, of course "shutty." I KNOW that I need to work on responding in love all the time especially with my kids. Anyway....thought I would put these thoughts down so that they don't escape me....
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I love this post! It is hard to "breathe out", especially when you try so hard to be fulfilling to those around you. I find myself justifying my annoyances that seem no big deal because I put forth so much effort in the other areas of my life. Thanks for the reminder that I need to be whole!!
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