Comments on: Nostalgic at Heart http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/01/quick-contemplation/ Sun, 20 May 2012 22:52:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: leslie http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/01/quick-contemplation/#comment-43 leslie Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:38:01 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=13#comment-43 Hey Jamie- Your words ring true all the way out here in semi-rural MN...Just last night I was doing something with some old friends that I haven't seen in five years...and it felt so empty...and I was reminded of what I have been given and how scary it is that I have all the choice as to what I am going to do with it. Character formation and life courses are decided minutes at a time. I don't want to forget that ever. These last couple of weeks have been thematic for me on this whole subject of complacency. Gary Haugen (IJM director) was on the radio all this week talking about IJM and he said something that stuck. He says that God longs to rescue us from the mundane. He wants to share with us the miraculous coming of His kingdom into the darkest of places around the world but we'd rather be rich, comfortable and safe. I will keep you in my prayers as you discern what the adventure looks like for you...and pray that God would preserve us both from what opportunity can take from our ultimate purpose. In the meantime, I am wrestling with how this series of minutes, these present demands on my time, these relationships that I invest in are to impact the person I am becoming and the mission I aim to serve...because I think that's where the battle is...in these minutes..not months from now or years from now...so thank you...sorry for the long windedness...this whole idea is something I've been talking about here too...safe travels to Jerusalem. I will leave you with the words of Sandra McCracken in "In Between" We have lent our aid, and left our conviction for the cause of the day, and this progress mission. In the dust behind, we leave the black and white, and the bottom line is gone without a fight. No ice, no flame no place to stand, no one to blame. No Ice, no flame, rescue me from the in between. You believe what you choose, and search for spare change, there are no rules, and the diamond waits in the wings. No ice, no flame no place to stand, no one to blame. No Ice, no flame, rescue me from the in between. Even sunday strangers, romancing the people, smiling at the dangers beneath the golden steeples, cynical compromise in everyday broad daylight, the marriage of faith and lies. -Leslie Hey Jamie-
Your words ring true all the way out here in semi-rural MN…Just last night I was doing something with some old friends that I haven’t seen in five years…and it felt so empty…and I was reminded of what I have been given and how scary it is that I have all the choice as to what I am going to do with it. Character formation and life courses are decided minutes at a time. I don’t want to forget that ever. These last couple of weeks have been thematic for me on this whole subject of complacency. Gary Haugen (IJM director) was on the radio all this week talking about IJM and he said something that stuck. He says that God longs to rescue us from the mundane. He wants to share with us the miraculous coming of His kingdom into the darkest of places around the world but we’d rather be rich, comfortable and safe. I will keep you in my prayers as you discern what the adventure looks like for you…and pray that God would preserve us both from what opportunity can take from our ultimate purpose. In the meantime, I am wrestling with how this series of minutes, these present demands on my time, these relationships that I invest in are to impact the person I am becoming and the mission I aim to serve…because I think that’s where the battle is…in these minutes..not months from now or years from now…so thank you…sorry for the long windedness…this whole idea is something I’ve been talking about here too…safe travels to Jerusalem. I will leave you with the words of Sandra McCracken in “In Between”

We have lent our aid, and left our conviction for the cause of the day, and this progress mission.

In the dust behind, we leave the black and white, and the bottom line is gone without a fight.

No ice, no flame no place to stand, no one to blame. No Ice, no flame, rescue me from the in between.

You believe what you choose, and search for spare change, there are no rules, and the diamond waits in the wings.

No ice, no flame no place to stand, no one to blame. No Ice, no flame, rescue me from the in between.

Even sunday strangers, romancing the people, smiling at the dangers beneath the golden steeples, cynical compromise in everyday broad daylight, the marriage of faith and lies.

-Leslie

]]> By: Lee http://jameswoller.com/2005/07/01/quick-contemplation/#comment-42 Lee Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:58:43 +0000 http://jameswoller.com/?p=13#comment-42 you are so right...i have definetly been thinking about complacency lately. it is something that has crept more and more into my life, and something that i have just recently made an effort to acknowledge and stop...thank you for your message, INSPIRING!! you are so right…i have definetly been thinking about complacency lately. it is something that has crept more and more into my life, and something that i have just recently made an effort to acknowledge and stop…thank you for your message, INSPIRING!!

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