All tagged Lydia

The Church Pactices

Worship and prayer is remembering that we are not the center of the universe, there is a God that cares about what is happening to us. Worship is gratitude for the world around us. It is practice taking time, showing up, feeling ridiculous the first time you pray or sing or simply open your arms to the creator of the universe and believe that you will be heard.

Path to Choosing Love

Every moment is an opportunity to live in the hope and love of the one who was resurrected who showed us, even in his own life, what it is to grow. To watch the mission expand beyond, to choose love again and again, and we have that example in Lydia: Who chose to grow and to learn and to develop, to listen and to welcome Paul.

Discipleship and Integrity

So we consciously and with intention curate. We make choices, every day, at least most days, like one who makes choices for a museum or library. I believe that we are creative creatures because we have a creative God. We bring and curate and create around us and so we have to ask: What brings us more joy? What brings my family, church, community more joy? What brings the world more joy? Because don’t think that it’s what we subtract from our lives but what we add to it. We learn from our story today what kinds of things we ought to add to our lives, what might bring us joy, bring our community joy, bring joy to the world.