Need a breath of fresh air

There are times when I have mixed feelings. Its not that I struggle with them, rather I long to know and put into practice how to put the knowledge and faith I have been given into action on a day to day basis. I I am so thankful, for the understanding I internalized from my upbringing in the basics of faith, for the beauty in liturgy, the stirring in my heart from a moving song, as well as sitting under the teaching of gifted teachers, but also thankful for people in my life that through their lives urged me to question the status quo, and want to see and be more for the betterment of all I look at the life of a servant like Mother Theresa who made a point looking to make the lives of others better with no earthly gain for herself as a goal. We in the west have been given much, MUCH! What are we doing with that much? I know we all have different giftings in regards to giving, but really, if we were all to take the teachings of Christ seriously, would there be loneliness, hunger , poverty, inequality on the scale that we see now? And its not about getting a good bang for the buck in regards to giving…..Jesus came and gave His all knowing that there would be those that wouldn’t want anything to do with His giving of His all. He did it anyways! As a whole we seem more interested in seeing a good return, and maybe even some of that “not in my backyard “ kinda thinking. Think of the hymn “Breath on me breath of God”, and hear the words “Fill me with life anew, that I may love what that thou dost love, and do what thou wouldst do” God loves everyone, and everything, and He wants nothing more than seeing everyone and everything be redeemed Something to think about How am I conducting my life, not just the visible parts of it? Is my life syncing with life of Jesus? He came to be a servant , am I reflecting His life, everywhere I go, in all that I do?

Thinking

Do you ever feel guilty about living in western world ? Where we (in general) have enough. I know we hear about this all the time, and sometimes I feel like The author of Ecclesiastes in that everything is meaningless . Chasing after the dream....but do we think to much? What if we took Jesus at His word and just lived what he espoused? He said to love God and our neighbour as ourselves. That has pretty big implications to our lifestyles. What if we all took those words literally and did what He did  to make others lives better in all aspects. I know we all take certain scriptures to live by, and we all have different giftings , but ultimately Jesus became a man, lived as one of us to ( in the way I read it) do stuff that drew attention to the kingdom of God in this world , praying and trusting that God is doing His part bringing more people to himself.

Here goes

It is said that there's nothing new under the sun. So if that's the case , why do we as the human race…. as individuals continue to do the same things? Sure, it looks different than 100 or 1000 years ago (even to the beginning of time) because of how we have progressed, but our world still suffers with greed, hatred and all the by-products of these actions. And they are actions, because they are choices that are made. I don't want to presume that I have all the answers, nor do I want to imply that others are wrong, but what I hope to do in this blog is join in the conversation of life, and talk about things that matter, why they matter and where we can go from there....spur each other on to be the difference, to point towards purpose and hope .