From Michael.
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Feasting for All it’s Worth
Feasting.
I’ve been thinking about that phrase for a long time – weeks, maybe. It entered my soul while listening to a sermon about the Sabbath. One of our professors explained the traditional Hebrew observance of the Sabbath, and how it starts with a family feast.
I’ve latched on to that thought like … like I’m hungry … or something.
And I’ve found myself, while living in dreaming-of-the-future land, imagining Drew and I having long lingering meals around a big dining room table in our home. With others there. With an abundance of food. And an abundance of conversation. And an abundance of time.
I’ve been in homes where this is a reality. We’ve spent long meals with our mentors back home. And spent long meals with seminary mentors here. Their bi-monthly breakfast can last for hours.
It’s one of the greatest experiences.
I’ve found myself having more of a feast-mentality when I sit at the table for dinner. Intentionally slowing the pace of my eating. Having more than one course to go through. And letting myself just “be” there. All in the hopes that we will become a feasting family as well.
And, deep down in the secret places, I hope that when I sit down and open my Bible, my soul will feast on the Richest of Fares.
i’ve never noticed this…
I’ve never noticed this before:
Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!~Amos 5:23-24
Makes me wanna write for all the right reasons… Like Justice. And Righteousness. Am I doing that? Am I striving for those things?
Are you?
Rising
Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy.
Though I fall I will rise;
Though I dwell in darkness,
the LORD is a light for me.
Micah 7:8, NASB
What do you think it means to rise? How can the fallen rise?
let’s give up
Luke 14:26-33 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters– yes, even his own life– he cannot be my disciple. 27 And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29 For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30 saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.
for starters, i still haven’t quite grasped what it means to “carry his cross”… but, that’s another post for another conversation. what i really want to say is that i honestly don’t even KNOW what to do with this last verse, except ask you (and myself):
what have you given up?
