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ON OUR FACES- an ongoing worship discussion

"The god's we worship write their names on our faces, be sure of that. And a man will worship something-have no doubt of that, either. He may think that his tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of his heart- but it will out. That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Refuse to accept the status quo. I challenge everything. It is important to me that I understand why I do what I do and I'll challenge everyone else too because that is how I learn. Christ-follower, student, teacher, artist, musician, mother, wife, daughter, friend, home-schooler, doula, home-birther, knitter, abuse survivor, advocate of women, children, families and peace, I value relationships more than anything in this life. There is room for my life for my passions for birth, music, lit., nature, art, dance, knitting, cooking, Scripture, film, theology, philosophy, writing, and loving my family. I know I don't have all the answers and I'm willing to listen, I don't argue for the sake of arguing or to win but I am passionate and opinionated while being open to change. Wrap all that up and then some and serve it with a cup of coffee, a glass of wine and some chocolate and that's a little bit of who I am. Just an ordinary woman in my every day rebellious ways.

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Running to Worship?

by Jessica

Jeremy and I have started running. It's great. Really. It's bringing me closer to God because while I run I pray. It goes something like this: "Dear God, make it stop! Help me, I'm dying! Everything hurts; moving, breathing, thinking, my side, my legs, EVERYTHING! HELP ME PLEASE! If I live through this, I promise... to run again tomorrow..."

People do this for fun?! Come on, it's torture. If I were in George Orwell's 1984 my secret deep fear would be having to run for my life or worse, run a marathon. "They" tell me it will get better, gotta keep it up. Well, I'm keeping it up and so far it's still hard but I know that I need to keep going for Jeremy and the girls, they deserve me taking care of myself. So I will keep running.


All this torturous running has had me thinking about worship as a lifestyle. Here is an area where I could use some improvement. I'm hardly worshiping, in fact, I'm always about 2 steps away from cursing up a storm and giving God a piece of my mind on the importance of keeping healthy. Ah yes, my flesh has a thing or two to say about the pain it has to go through. So do you think Paul really meant it when he wrote in Romans 12 "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him." That's from The Message, I just love how Peterson puts it, I can't gloss over it quite as easily as I can with the version I memorized: "Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship." (NASV) Do you think Paul could even mean when we're running or doing something else we really hate... dis-like, hate's a bad word in our house. But seriously, God Doesn't expect me to actully worship while I'm out there dying, er, uh, running? What are your thoughts?

posted by Jessica | 3:26 PM | 0 comments

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Comments Enabled

by Jessica

I don't know why they weren't working, but comments should be enabled now. Somebody please try it so we can find out! Thanks!

posted by Jessica | 9:38 PM | 2 comments