Normal? What's that?
Thanks for all the comments and emails. I am doing better. I have good days and bad. I am trying to eliminate all external negatives and go from there. This means trying to manage my time better. (easier said than done). Between working out and planning meals (which I did occasionally did before) as well as photography stuff I am keeping busy and trying not to make excuses for myself. More than time consuming it's emotionally consuming. It's wishing I could just have whatever I want to eat (that's been going on for a year or so). It's wishing I could have immediate gratification (which I am really bad at waiting for). It's wishing sometimes that I could just be "normal".
Sunday at church was good. I always forget how much I hate missing a week or how refreshing it is til I am there. The message was about washing dishes. Well not really it was about Jesus telling the people that you can wash the outside of the cup but if the inside isn't clean the outside will never be clean. Rob did a great job of explaining that if you have the look and everything else right that's great, but unless you have the inside clean you won't be happy. He talked about how that's the opposite of our society. "They" say that we can have it all put together on the outside- buy our happiness- put it all together- and don't talk about the inside- don't deal with your issues. But Christ says that it's been taken care of . He has cleaned whatever we have that is making us "dirty" on the inside. God wants our outside and inside to be unified. He wants us to have a unified life. He wants our inside and outside to be great. And until we deal with the inside the outside will never seem good enough. Because of Christ-- we have the opportunity to have a unified life- for him we are all good enough. (I pretty much just butchered the sermon- but you can get it here if you want to hear a much better version here go to teachings and click download mp3).
So for today. I am working on accepting what God has made me and working on cleaning the inside of the cup.
ck
Sunday at church was good. I always forget how much I hate missing a week or how refreshing it is til I am there. The message was about washing dishes. Well not really it was about Jesus telling the people that you can wash the outside of the cup but if the inside isn't clean the outside will never be clean. Rob did a great job of explaining that if you have the look and everything else right that's great, but unless you have the inside clean you won't be happy. He talked about how that's the opposite of our society. "They" say that we can have it all put together on the outside- buy our happiness- put it all together- and don't talk about the inside- don't deal with your issues. But Christ says that it's been taken care of . He has cleaned whatever we have that is making us "dirty" on the inside. God wants our outside and inside to be unified. He wants us to have a unified life. He wants our inside and outside to be great. And until we deal with the inside the outside will never seem good enough. Because of Christ-- we have the opportunity to have a unified life- for him we are all good enough. (I pretty much just butchered the sermon- but you can get it here if you want to hear a much better version here go to teachings and click download mp3).
So for today. I am working on accepting what God has made me and working on cleaning the inside of the cup.
ck
2 Comments:
I was really challenged by the message this week too and I think you did a great job explaining it. You really have a gift for paraphrasing what other people say and giving a brief recount of what happened- I wish I could do that better. I love you!
Good thoughts Christy!
It's amazing to know how much of a difference that "inside" makes... that when we focus on being sure that is as clean as it can be, it just makes everything else in your life that much cleaner, clearer and more peaceful.
Thanks for the good reminder that we can all be more intentional on this front... to focus on controlling the things we can.
Still praying for you!
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