The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the
image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions… [Christians] should seek for inner enlargement till their outward dimension gives no hint of the vastness within.
… A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
(Pray for the grace to align your spiritual heart with the heart of
Christ.)
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1 KGS 2:1-4, 10-12; 1 CHRONICLES 29:10, 11AB, 11D-12A, 12BCD
MK 6:7-13
Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two
and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick
–no food, no sack, no money in their belts.
They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic.
He said to them,
"Wherever you
enter a house, stay there until you leave from there.
Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you,
leave there and shake the dust off your feet
in testimony against them."
So they went off and preached repentance.
The Twelve drove out many demons,
and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
Reflection on the
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What are those things that weigh us down
as we journey through life? What are those things that get in our way of doing God’s work? Do we have the courage to go where we are sent, to move on when it is time, to take rejection, to lead and to serve when it is difficult and inconvenient, to do work for the greater glory of God? Dear friends, do we have the courage? I am still afraid to answer these questions for myself, but one thing I do know is that it seems our options open up when we travel light through life;
leaving our baggage – physical or emotional – behind as we respond to the missioning into the world. Yes, brothers and sisters, let’s pick up our walking sticks, put on our sandals, and do ministry together.
- by Vivian
Amu Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 46
“We fail oftentimes of the sight of Him, and anon we fall into our self, and then find we no
feeling of right,—nought but contrariness that is in our self” For I felt in me five manner of workings, which be these: Enjoying, mourning, desire, dread, and sure hope. Enjoying: for God gave me understanding and knowing that it was Himself that I saw; mourning: and that was for failing; desire: and that was I might see Him ever more and more, understanding and knowing that we shall never have full rest till we see Him verily and clearly in heaven;
dread was: for it seemed to me in all that time that that sight should fail, and I be left to myself; sure hope was in the endless love: that I saw I should be kept by His mercy and brought to His bliss. And the joying in His sight with this sure hope of His merciful keeping made me to have feeling and comfort so that mourning and dread were not greatly painful. And yet in all this I beheld in the Shewing of God that this manner of sight may not be continuant in this life,—and that for His own
worship and for increase of our endless joy. And therefore we fail oftentimes of the sight of Him, and anon we fall into our self, and then find we no feeling of right,—naught but contrariness that is in our self; and that of the elder root of our first sin, [153] with all the sins that follow, of our contrivance. And in this we are in travail and tempest [154] with feeling of sins, and of pain in many divers manners, spiritual and bodily, as it is known to us in this
life.
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