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Blissful Beginnings 1

What if we stopped trying to wriggle out of everything unpleasant and started accepting whatever comes our way as just some indispensable part of the big plan? (God speaks in all things, after all).

What if instead of endlessly buffing our exteriors, we started living out a fuller life experience from within?

And what if, instead of being increasingly bi-polar in our contradictions we started striving instead for a more level existence, securing our emotions on to something bigger than other people, events, conditions and feelings?

And what if each of us stopped playing the stupid roles we play in the complicit conspiracy of “more” by accepting “less” and pursuing the treasure it offers hidden deep within its folds?  

I’ve heard it floated before that God continually gives us what we want [correction, demand] until we become so sick and crazy we just can’t take it anymore.

Which is another way of saying, Ultimately, freedom apart from God isn’t possible. Freedom as it’s idealized in Western culture isn’t freedom at all but acute selfishness exercised as self-immolation. And that’s because true freedom isn't “apart from” but rather means “belonging to” ... God’s extended family in Christ, through the offertory of oneself in cooperation with Him for loving others.

The prince of this world is a liar. The world looks like him. And if we're not careful, so will we.