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Maybe Stop Trying To Change The World...

And love someone. I think I learned something about God this week. He wants my heart. And yours. I can give him my heart even if I don't leave my office today. I can fail to do that even if I really do change the world. 

I see God in people. This is how I know He has been at work. I saw a Rich Mullins clip last week. He was reflecting on writing the song "Hold Me Jesus," thinking about temptation, and he said, "I was talking it over with my spiritual director, and he said, 'Maybe it's not that you are so bad, it's just that you weren't meant to go out by yourself.'" I don't want to minimize anything, but how true that is!

The priest in Confession told me to reach out a little more. [He told the likes of you to be even more outgoing?--ed.] Apparently. "Christ in mouth of friend and stranger."

There are infinite levels of, "It is not good for the man to be alone." Quite aside from the obvious reading, I sense that when I plumb the depths of myself and really start exploring, I have a powerful need to feel human. Almost every wrong road I ever took involved believing the lie that I am not really a person. You think, "What an odd thing to believe!" and yet, what percentage of us believes this very thing, and never actually even try to think otherwise?

You are real. By God's grace, you have the power to give life in ways large and small, or to take it away today. What will you do?

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