living centred....

wordless wednesday

or 

wordfilled wednesday?

which option to choose?

i've spent 2 days writing my second submission to Cast magazine.

this time for its summer edition,

so i'm feeling 'worded' out!

reading Ann Voskamp's 'Walk with Him Wednesday'

i recognize how my article reflects my own response to some of her questions.

"How do we give our lives away?

Is that what it means to be centered on Christ,

the God who so loved, He gave?"

as i've previously written and posted,
as Christ followers,
as 'Marys',

our 'doing' results from our 'being'.

who we are in relationship with God through Christ,

having developed a relationship that hears His voice,

that sees from God's perspective.

when we are seeing and hearing

we can then choose, like Jesus, to be about our Father's business.

not filling our page with the scribbles of our own activity,

rather, making the mark God intends for us to make.

a quarter inch stroke?

an intricate celtic cross?

an imperfect circle...

the mark isn't what matters.

the obedience is.

for the one who loves Him obeys Him -

"Then my Father will love them,

and we will come to them

and live in them." Jn 14.23

and when God comes to live love in us

we begin to hear love and we begin to see love.

" He wakens Me morning by morning,

He wakens My ear to hear as a disciple -as one who is taught."

Is 50.4

when our ears are wakened as disciples who are taught

we willingly choose to obey.

out of love. 

on mission with God.

what matters is living in God's love relationship,

responding from a loved and loving heart.
there is no fear in love.
thus, no striving. no need to perform.
no need for it. no room for it. 

Eph. 3.19

[That you may really come] to know

[practically, through experience for yourselves]

the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience];

that you may be filled [through all your being]

into all the fullness of God

[may have the richest measure of the divine Presence,

and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!

Amplified

here's to a lifetime of Living.
 Loved!...

Cheers!

 

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