okay, i’ll give it a shot
Jim November 27th, 2006
Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it.
2 Corinthians 3:3
Someone asked me to communicate in words the good news of God without using any religious or theological verbiage. Okay, I’ll give it a shot.
God is Love.
Love (God) seeks the highest good of the other.
The greatest good God (Love) could offer is himself and so God made all people a reflection of himself in order to form an intimate bond with humankind.
In God, we experience life, love, freedom, joy, and peace.
God is pleased and smiles.
But doubting God, we seek fulfillment our own way and fall short of experiencing what God desires for us.
This path of independence bores a deep sense of separation from God into the heart of humankind, out of which the brokenness and suffering of the world flow.
God passionately resists this reality because he (Love) insists his creation know the highest good, which is possible only in relationship with himself.
Love (God) sacrifices everything in order to heal the wound of separation.
The cross and empty tomb sends a resounding message to the heart of humankind: all is forgiven, there is no separation, there is only grace, you are loved.
The soul is awakened to the life of Christ within and we begin operating differently; seeing through Christ’s eyes, thinking with Christ’s mind, feeling with Christ’s heart, and acting with Christ’s will.
We become instruments of love, peace, compassion, community, healing, justice, reconciliation, and beauty in the world.
We look past the human exterior of others and affirm all people for the reflections of God they truly are.
Another soul is awakened to the truth, and another, and another.
Words are no longer necessary; our lives individually and collectively are the good news of God and his kingdom.
God, I’m not the most articulate person in the world; let my life do my talking. Amen.
(photo by “Imago Dei [Fotography]” / flickr)
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this resonates so deeply with what i have been reading and thinking about.
check out the quaker: parker palmer
“let your life speak”
this book was one of the catalyst that led me to walk away from my marketing and pr career of 10 years.
good to know someone else is wrestling with the same issues.