At the end of this week's Skylight Lounge everyone left with a white ping pong ball with 'nothing' written on it; a visual aid to signify not only the 'junk' we carry around in our lives but also the fact that there's nothing we can do to make God love us any less. Nothing.
How did this week's subject reverberate with you? What have you come away with and what are the thoughts you're taking with you throughout this week?
Discuss away...
2 comments:
First of all did you really post this at 7.30 AM !!!!
Are you mad?
Thought yesterday was great... not sure how I feel about blogs (i thought you were supposed to write something provoking to kick off this discussion) but here goes with a toe in the water:
So there is nothing I can do to make God love less eh? OK, so why when life really sucks does he seem to go AWOL sometimes?
And... if it was my little boy or girl hurting i can't imagine i wouldn't cross mountains to tell him I love them..
OK so i know in my head that is what Jesus coming is all about but... but...
thoughts?
Ps this isn't just a provocative Q. Come on I want some answers! .. or at least understanding or insight!
I really liked lump- it was so self inclusive and seemed to resound with everyone i spoke to about it for different reasons.
why does God seem to go awol when life sucks... hmmm.. well my immediate thought is that He doesnt.. just our ability to see Him working. I think the times we feel emtionally drained, physically tired, pychologically depressed... it is understandable to be spiritually drained, tired and depressed too.
when i feel depressed i struggle to care about anything or anyone at all- so the thing i crave most (God's love and acceptance) is the one thing I dont feel. But.. if God is in my heart, then it must be my preceptions that change, it must be my emotional state that is needy.
i cling to the fact that God is with me, I am precious to Him, he loves me unconditionally... even if I dont feel it right now, I have felt Him in the past, and I will know it again.
And these times, it is seeing the people in my life strive to show me God in them that becomes my reality of Love- which is why looking outward and being part of a community is important- when i want to hide away in the dark I'm pestered by annoying people who actually care.. until i let them!!
and so we come full circle to what are we doing on a sunday morning..........are we slowley pulling back the covers of northfields to reveal people that are in desperate need of someone just to say "nothing you ever do will make me love you less" and I am going to show you that by showing you Gods love.. week in week out without agenda.
And if we arent doing that... well... what then?
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