Synergy! Is an amazing thing…
We began a New Higher Ground class last night. I admit, I don’t usually study or teach from curriculum studies like Beth Moore or Joyce Meyer(s)? for many reasons (um…like I thought/think they were too canned and maybe more than a little lame), but I found myself dry and uninspired a few months ago and out of desperation, halfheartedly explored this one. Oh boy…this one hits a bulls eye my friends. Living Beyond Yourself. I think you can do it on line right now at her website.
Completely. Life. Changing. IF you…allow it.
They have missed Higher Ground as much as I have. Do you know what it’s like to be part of a packed room of very busy women who are determined to change their lives and the lives of those they touch? Who want to LIVE life to the fullest every day? Powerful. These women scare me and intimidate me to the core, but I think that’s a good thing.ÂÂ
I believe we can change the world one moment at a time. This past couple of weeks or so, I committed myself to concentrating on living beyond myself, thinking first about others that God would bring into my path. I wanted to consciously respond through the qualities living in us through the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23. Love, Peace, Patience, Goodness, Kindness, Gentleness, Faithfulness and Self Control through serving whoever God brought across my path. You cannot believe the number of people that God brought to me. Not always heavy or serious but people that were lost, ran out of gas, a little boy fell off his bike and no one was around to help, a conversation with more than one person who felt they were in a desolate wilderness. One of them, I didn’t even know. All I did was be open and aware of my circumstances.
I want to live an amazing life waaay beyond what I am capable of living on my own. I wish you all could join us. Synergy is so powerful, so energizing, so healing. It overcomes. You just can’t help it.
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April 27, 2007 at 10:47 am
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April 25, 2007 at 9:51 am
billclark
G.
This is an interesting tension that I’m not sure I’m ever going to fully understand. Practice is important (”train unto godliness”), performance is important (otherwise what’s all this talk from Paul about running races?) but transformation is what its all about (too many versus to mention) - but what’s cause? what’s effect? what’s the means? what’s the end?
Sometimes it seems like a gestalt test - the more you look at it, the more the images flip back and forth!
April 25, 2007 at 11:22 am
obahsomah
bill clark you are always thinking!
I think the performing part is to perform before one and only one…God. When we set out to proclaim and perform our deeds as something WE are doing, not something God is doing through us, then it is showing off.
Gwen…always getting me thinking way to early! Love you!
April 25, 2007 at 12:01 pm
awarriorprincess
maybe its where the energy is coming from to begin with? maybe when we expect nothing in return? Maybe when we project the shekina shine away from ourselves? maybe when we walk away without having flown our banner at all and make people want to ask “why”?
April 25, 2007 at 1:43 pm
parke
In some unhealthy situations there really is a sense of performance. I think that it’s worthwhile noting that sometimes we mistake things for performance that are healthy. For example, non-profits frequently tout what they are doing. There is a wrong way to do this, but they know that by touting what is being done (via the power of the supporters and with the energy of the receivers) encourages even more people to jump in. And there is a certain amount of that which you’ll see Paul doing in his letters. He praises what some people over here are doing in a letter that will go around so that others will be jealous to do good things.
There’s also an element of praising God. One of my roles in life is to praise God in my writing. Part of that is pointing out miraculous moments that are clearly all God. I think another part of that though is pointing out God at work in the community around me and in the lives of those serving.
It certainly does make for a complex situation to dive into.
April 27, 2007 at 9:11 am
Gwen
True Parke, I think when there is performance but it’s not for self, that there is a bigger picture for the good of others, that’s transformance.
When I think of Performance I think ritualistic and empty, just going through the motions because we were taught that Christians live a certain way or perform kind deeds. There doesn’t appear to be any life behind it.
April 27, 2007 at 10:19 am
parke
That’s fair.
April 27, 2007 at 10:23 am
Gwen
but sad…