Dear All of Us,
Now, I have a friend
who can talk people into anything.
He could sell folks the socks
they've been wearing for a week
at twice what they paid for them
while the socks are still on their feet!
That's a feat not for me.
Yet, I want to talk us all
into something way harder
and I sure don't know how.
So, let's let
The Spirit
do the sell.
Here comes a spank'n brand
New Year
Another shot at getting things
Bright Right
A good time for
a refresh, a reset.
How's that for a lead into a
A New Year's Resolution?
Now the hard part.
"THE"
best
resolution, refresh and reset
for our
New Now
is to actually,
practically.
really, radically,
totally,
for sure and forever
"Give It UP"
Surrender
every bit and all of ourselves
to
God.
Phew!
There!
I said it!
Now, let's do it!
If we clutch what we think
we are and have,
in no time
time will rip them away.
We were created by
Infinitely More
for
Infinitely More
If we lighten
UP
"Give It UP"
to
The Infinitely More
The Limitless Good
God
we're wrapped in,
God Good To Go.
The flip here is that this
Surrender
is the opposite of
our fear of surrendering,
our fear of losing,
our fear of being had.
When we
Give It Up
to
God
We lose illusion.
We gain inclusion.
The word surrender says itself
so ever well:
(L) rendere = give back, return
(L) sur = over
We "give back"
we "hand over" to God
who and how we are,
what we have.
We Trade Up
the starter kit
God gave us
at our beginning
rather than
staying starter,
trying to go it
on our own alone
and be hellishly
isolated and minimal.
We accept the invitation
to union and fullness.
We embrace
The Goodness
that embraced us
into being.
It's a Love Wrap.
We are divinized!
"The sky is limitless."
It's like investing
our little piggy bank
in Warren Buffet's portfolio,
and doing that
times beyond number
over the span of our years.
Fully invested,
completely incorporated,
full folded in,
we do God's will
God's way.
We're UP for it.
We're life enriched
and life enriching.
The Wonderful Way
of it all
is shared
in the living
and the
Living Word
of Jesus.
His Promised Present Spirit
guides, energizes us
Every day, all day,
Everywhere
Always,
All ways.
It's not
"What would Jesus do?"
but
what will Jesus do
in and through
us in our here and now?
For us as for Paul:
"I live now not I,
but Christ lives in me."
Galatians 2:20
May it be so for each of us.
May it be so for us
gathered as church.
"Give It Up"
and UP we'll be.
HAPPY
NEW NOW
Your brother,
John Frank
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We Surrender
as lovers do unto
Oneness.
See you all next week
indeed next year,
would you believe
already yet?!
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