Peripatetics: The Art of Walking

Peripatetics: The Art of Walking

  
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We're convinced that walking with Christ is the truly abundant life. There's an art to it, and we're trying help each other live that kind of life. Maybe this will help...

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    Tuesday, November 09, 2004

    ...and we didn't have our normal Sunday School teaching time, I'm finding some provocative quotes that I hope will help turn this page into a more interactive forum rather than simply a "read and go" devotional. So here's today's quote, taken from Brennan Manning's "The Ragamuffin Gospel."

    "Sooner or later we are confronted with the painful truth of our inadequacy and insufficiency. Our security is shattered and our bootstraps are cut. Once the fervor has passed, weakness and infidelity appear. We discover our inability to add even a single inch to our spiritual stature. There begins a long winter of discontent that eventually flowers into gloom, pessimism, and subtle despair: subtle because it goes unrecognized, unnoticed, and therefore unchallenged. It takes the form of boredom, drudgery. We are overcome by the ordinariness of life, by daily duties done over and over again. We secretly admit that the call of Jesus is too demanding, that surrender to the Spirit is out of our reach. We start acting like everyone else. Life takes on a joyless, empty quality...

    ...something is radically wrong."

    Now, keep in mind that he was talking about what happens when we try to live a life of structure, formula and self...rather than a life of grace. Read it again, and in the comments tell us if you agree or disagree and why...and if you agree and had this type of experience, share what God taught you through it.

    Brent 4:52 AM
    Comments:
    i actually went through this about a year ago. i felt like i just wasn't good enough....life got boring, and i figured that was just life. but God got to me, and reminded me of His love that originally brought me into a relationship with Him. i realized by watching my brothers and sisters in Christ that we are meant to have an abundant life....and i highly doubt by "abundant life" God would mean the boring stuff i felt. so since then...yes, sometimes i still struggle with it, but God reminds me that by sending His Son He intended for me to have a joyful, fruitful life, built on a relationship with the God who loves me more than i can know, so that i can glorify Him.
    posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 9:14 PM
     
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