Embracing Life: A Heartfelt 'Yes' to God

right now this moment you can do something quite remarkable and i can too and i'm seeking to with all my heart you could say yes to this moment you can say i will not just be here passively i will not drift in my mind in my heart i will be fully present i will seek right now to listen to god i will try to listen to what is good and what could be uplifting and what could inspire me and i will try to say yes with everything inside me [00:16:43]

the other day says i saw again an elderly maiden lady just a brief word here this book was written i don't know 70 years ago we would not use that kind of language today part of the wisdom of learning how to read old books is learning what to look past and how to not read with chronological snobbery and recognize if i were in that day i would probably use language like that person does who has undergone and is still enduring very great suffering but whose life is full of the radiance that comes from a personal attachment to jesus christ [01:09:43]

now she tells me that through prayer she has come to see how in her trial she had shut up her heart against life she had said no to the life that was denying her so much do you not think she adds that it's possible that that attitude compromised my health and my vitality terne goes on do not misunderstand me her life has been a fruitful one fruitful in personal contacts and then spiritual children and yet what she tells me now has an arresting ring of truth about it [02:29:92]

in the intimate dialogue that she has with her lord a new spring of life has welled up and overflowed the damn of her affliction a new spring of life is overflowing the dam of her affliction she has been able to listen to the divine voice and reply to it to say yes to god is also to say yes to life even if it is a maimed and crippled life it is to turn from the negative to the positive for the call of god is positive [03:08:79]

many people identify the voice of god with the voice of conscience but it goes far beyond that the voice of god is not heard only in reproof and when he does reproof it is to call us to liberation and action he calls he sends he gives a purpose to life he moves us and thus awakens us at the deepest level god called amos the insignificant herdsmen following his flock god takes him out of his old limited automatic automaton reflects of life and makes him a prophet before the people and the king [03:44:32]

here once more we see the nature of life and of the persons they are not static but dynamic everywhere in the bible we see people thus touched by the divine dialogue so that they find their true dimension i love this their stature increases and bursts the seam of the krant garment cramped garment of their persona their image their old small limited fleshly god-opposed self we are here at the heart of the issue of the person [04:31:92]

let go of the itch to cling to what is gone and that you cannot bring back i have a close and intimate relationship with my skin doctor because my skin always has one issue another i was with him today and one of the problems was i have this tremendous itching going on in my scalp i don't need to say any more about it than that but he had a prescription for me and i'll tell you what it wasn't it was not scratch it real good [05:52:24]

but it will not come by scratching the itch that will never be satisfied it will only come that that it cannot be satisfied it can only be healed and there is a kind of medicine there is a kind of therapy for it where eventually it will recede i will never be able to scratch it into satisfaction but it will begin to ebb so that i can feel other feelings better and nobler and truer feelings let go of what is no longer and cannot be [06:33:19]

and i found myself just driving around going to a few different primary sites primary spots that had been painful for me and just blessing and i was so grateful and then nancy and i met there and we talked and we prayed and it was so good to be able to say yes to the life that i have now not the life that i thought i would be a life that misses some things that i wish i would rather not missing but it is my life it is my calling [07:45:52]

when i look at myself when i look at my world when i look at problems inflation loss whatever it is i can just get crippled and want to say no to that problem to that economy to that maimed and crippled life but then when i look at somebody else and think i could help i could be used by god i could give a kind of strength wells up inside us when we are giving that does not come when we are hoarding or protecting or cringing or worrying [09:55:76]

because then we are stepping into the reality of the presence of the kingdom of god in our midst where little birds get taken care of and flowers get more beautifully clothed than the kardashians every day this is your moment this is your day say yes choose wisely [10:28:80]

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