The posts below all relate in some way to the theme of choosing your attitude. Why is choosing your attitude core to living life as a Christian? And what might that look like in the different circumstances of an ordinary life?
theme: choose your attitude
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fear is a terrorist
I have sometimes imagined myself running with a companion. I didn’t do this deliberately, he just sort of made himself known. It happened first when I was running out in the sugar cane fields, in the rural part of Mozambique where we lived for a while. Sandy tracks bordered by tall green stands of cultivated cane; it was a little remote out there for a lone woman, however speedy she fancied her getaway might be.
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another way
I seem to have a foot in two camps, these days. Or maybe I should say, I have one foot on the pontoon and the other on the vessel that is slowly moving away from me, so that I am afraid I might just end up plopping embarrassingly into the water between my feet. On the one hand, I am steeped in a spiritual tradition that teaches that to lose one’s life is to save it. Read more ...
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letting go
I agree, and perhaps you do too, that letting go can feel like a small kind of dying. (And sometimes not so small, let’s be honest.) Could it be that, as Madeleine L’Engle writes, “without this death, nothing is born. And if we die willingly, no matter how frightened we may be, we will be found and born anew into life, and life more abundant”? We let go because we are being given something larger, something we cannot hold unless we first release our grip. Read more ...
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passivity & preparation
Advent is a time when we practice waiting. We press more deeply into what it means to wait and to trust that God is bringing about something good that we cannot make happen for ourselves. We posture ourselves to receive his goodness, without striving as though we were ultimately responsible to bring it about. Read more ...
