I want to get a some queries up for people to respond to. This set are from the sermon on June 8.
Karen O.
1) What might God be calling us as a meeting to do in other areas? Is there a project we are being called to that might be as exciting and impossible as feeding a multitude with 5 loaves of bread? Perhaps this could involve the property next door.
2) In what new direction am I personally being called to step out in faith and follow Christ my present teacher?
3) Am I hearing God call me/us to take a risk? What risk? If not, why not?
I don’t know if this is really a risk or not, though it does often feel uncomfortable–I am being called to back off, to put it bluntly! I have spent a long time running around like my hair was on fire trying to make things happen as though somehow I could whip everything into shape on my own. For me the present teacher is my inner wisdom, which I am trying to listen to more carefully. I am practicing non-attachment and radical acceptance. If something comes up and I can offer an idea for something that I can do, then I will do that. But whereas before I would have been very attached to the outcome, now that is no longer the case. I can offer it up and let it go. I have learned the hard way that trying to force things into my way of seeing them will never work when I am dealing with a group situation and sometimes even when I am dealing with only myself! So at this point I just try to stay in touch with my true self so I can live a life of integrity. As long as I am living from my place of truth, I have to trust that things will work out. It has not been easy to give up the illusion of control that I used to have, but the incredible sense of freedom I feel now makes it well worth it!
By: shari burke on June 22, 2008
at 9:40 pm