I know this very wise woman who loves God and His people. She is an author, a counselor and a coach and talks about resting forward into God. It's a state of the heart where you aren't holding back, in fear or in aprehension, you are ready for the future, but not worrying about it, and you're living now, but not standing on your own in your own energy. Your resting, forward, leaning into Him physically, figuratively, emotionally to live and function and walk with Him without fighting Him.
Have you ever leaned into someone? Have you ever leaned forward into someone? I do this with my husband. I lean into him, into his chest and body and tuck myself up under his chin. If he were to step back, I would fall. He's got to have me, because I don't and I'm certainly in no position to resist him.
That is one way I think of resting forward into my life with Yahweh.
Another thought came to me: I love to ski (you might have read that somewhere), and to ski well and aggressively, to make skis carve a turn and fly steady down a hill, the skier needs to pressure their shin into the front of the ski boot. The boot will take the pressure and support the skier and transfer the energy into the ski.
To get used to the feeling of your shin against your boot, to train your muscles, and to rest them, when your not heading down hill it is good to rest forward into your boot. You'll see a lot of racers doing this when they are waiting in line to get on course. Not only are they training, practicing, but they are resting. They are not fighting the position a ski boot puts you in, they are resting into it. And the boot and ski will work better because of it-- the racer will ski better because of it.
A skier who knows how to rest forward has already predisposed themselves to proper forward momentum. A Christian who rests forward has predisposed themselves to faith and trust and action and joy and peace. And with their being leaning into Him, He's got to have them, and He does, and it's very hard to resist Him.
Do you want to ski better no matter the conditions? Rest forward.
Do you want to LIVE fully with wholeness, peace, and joy no matter what is happening? Rest forward into Him.
Learning to rest forward (by resting forward),
k8t
k8t(at)faceofagirl(dot)com
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Sport
I really enjoy sport. I really enjoy watching and connecting to the deep moments of success and hard work and expenditure of energy and passion. I especially enjoy participating in skiing.
Winter is here and I have been skiing a lot (alpine). I love skiing. I love the speed, I love my body working against gravity, yet using it. I love the feeling of my body working in tandem with the boots and skis and the ground. I love the wind rushing past, or [is it] me rushing past the atmosphere. I love especially the wonderful sunny days that I get to ski and the days the snow is falling. I love skiing with like minded skiers, people who love to ski, people who love the feeling of the boards on edge, shins pressuring boots, people who love to fly! I love the feeling of camaraderie and accomplishment, of muscles burning, of navigating near misses, and even, surviving fabulous falls! I love the feeling of flying down a hill and pressuring by shins against by boots and the skis against the ground to stop my motion and direct it somewhere else!!! I love being outside where there is not much that you can control.
Skiing gives me the closest thing I can think of that shows me what living with and walking with God should be. It should be freedom and joy and exhilaration and adrenaline and sharing and relationship and placing my life on the edge; of defying gravity by handing myself over to Him so that He can use me and bend me and mold me and do the same to someone else through me.
The Christian life should be like flying down a ski run!
I think it is if we can just lean into it and let His Spirit carry us, guide us, and set us on edge so we can carve and fly!
Leaning forward and aiming to fly,
k8t
k8t(at)faceofagirl(dot)com
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Winter is here and I have been skiing a lot (alpine). I love skiing. I love the speed, I love my body working against gravity, yet using it. I love the feeling of my body working in tandem with the boots and skis and the ground. I love the wind rushing past, or [is it] me rushing past the atmosphere. I love especially the wonderful sunny days that I get to ski and the days the snow is falling. I love skiing with like minded skiers, people who love to ski, people who love the feeling of the boards on edge, shins pressuring boots, people who love to fly! I love the feeling of camaraderie and accomplishment, of muscles burning, of navigating near misses, and even, surviving fabulous falls! I love the feeling of flying down a hill and pressuring by shins against by boots and the skis against the ground to stop my motion and direct it somewhere else!!! I love being outside where there is not much that you can control.
Skiing gives me the closest thing I can think of that shows me what living with and walking with God should be. It should be freedom and joy and exhilaration and adrenaline and sharing and relationship and placing my life on the edge; of defying gravity by handing myself over to Him so that He can use me and bend me and mold me and do the same to someone else through me.
The Christian life should be like flying down a ski run!
I think it is if we can just lean into it and let His Spirit carry us, guide us, and set us on edge so we can carve and fly!
Leaning forward and aiming to fly,
k8t
k8t(at)faceofagirl(dot)com
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Who is God?
1Cor 13:4-8a
Love is patient, love is kind {and} is not jealous; love does not brag {and} is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong {suffered,} does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
1John 4:8b
...for God is love
1 John 4:16b
God is love...
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Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love is not jealous.
Love does not brag.
Love is not arrogant.
Love does not act unbecomingly.
Love it does not seek its own.
Love is not provoked.
Love does not take into account a wrong {suffered}.
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness.
Love rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things.
Love believes all things.
Love hopes all things.
Love endures all things.
Love never fails.
God is Love.
God is patient.
God is kind.
God is not jealous.
God does not brag.
God is not arrogant.
God does not act unbecomingly.
God it does not seek its own.
God is not provoked.
God does not take into account a wrong {suffered}.
God does not rejoice in unrighteousness.
God rejoices with the truth.
God bears all things.
God believes all things.
God hopes all things.
God endures all things.
God never fails.
God never fails.
luvin the insight God brings,
k8t
k8t(at)faceofagirl(dot)com
Scripture from the NASB.
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Love is patient, love is kind {and} is not jealous; love does not brag {and} is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong {suffered,} does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
1John 4:8b
...for God is love
1 John 4:16b
God is love...
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Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love is not jealous.
Love does not brag.
Love is not arrogant.
Love does not act unbecomingly.
Love it does not seek its own.
Love is not provoked.
Love does not take into account a wrong {suffered}.
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness.
Love rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things.
Love believes all things.
Love hopes all things.
Love endures all things.
Love never fails.
God is Love.
God is patient.
God is kind.
God is not jealous.
God does not brag.
God is not arrogant.
God does not act unbecomingly.
God it does not seek its own.
God is not provoked.
God does not take into account a wrong {suffered}.
God does not rejoice in unrighteousness.
God rejoices with the truth.
God bears all things.
God believes all things.
God hopes all things.
God endures all things.
God never fails.
God never fails.
luvin the insight God brings,
k8t
k8t(at)faceofagirl(dot)com
Scripture from the NASB.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Compassion VS. Justice
When we speak of compassion and expect compassion and ask government to be compassionate, yet do not demand that justice accompany it, we end up with corruption.
When we do not consider the need for justice within acts of compassion we will use the ideal of compassion to do and get what we want, and to make ourselves feel better.
Justice, by definition, causes us to judge/decide rightly without deference to power, wealth, or status (having OR not having), to bring relief, and finally, to fix the situation by bringing healing, rehabilitation, or a solution that provides for permanent salvation from the situation.
Compassion causes us to act, justice tells us how to act.
Justice is not easy. Justice is not for the faint of heart. God calls us to be just. God calls us to act justly, in all matters.
The God of all Compassion is just.
Hit with a brick today,
k8t
k8t(at)faceofagirl(dot)com
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When we do not consider the need for justice within acts of compassion we will use the ideal of compassion to do and get what we want, and to make ourselves feel better.
Justice, by definition, causes us to judge/decide rightly without deference to power, wealth, or status (having OR not having), to bring relief, and finally, to fix the situation by bringing healing, rehabilitation, or a solution that provides for permanent salvation from the situation.
Compassion causes us to act, justice tells us how to act.
Justice is not easy. Justice is not for the faint of heart. God calls us to be just. God calls us to act justly, in all matters.
The God of all Compassion is just.
Hit with a brick today,
k8t
k8t(at)faceofagirl(dot)com
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