Daily Meditation: Being Clothed in Christ

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Monday June 4, 2012       Being Clothed in Christ  Being a believer means being clothed in Christ.  Paul says:  "Every one of you that has been baptised has been clothed in Christ"  (Galatians 3:26) and "Let your armour be the Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 13:14).  This being "clothed in Christ" is much more than wearing a cloak that covers our misery.  It refers to a total transformation that allows us to say with Paul:  "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive;  yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me"  (Galatians 2:20). Thus, we are the living Christ in the world.  Jesus, who is God-made-flesh, continues to reveal himself in our own flesh.  Indeed, true salvation is becoming Christ.   Comment on this Daily Meditation. Please join us for a discussion on The Wounded Healer.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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Daily Meditation: Claiming the Identity of Jesus

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Sunday June 3, 2012      Claiming the Identity of Jesus  When we think about Jesus as that exceptional, unusual person who lived long ago and whose life and words continue to inspire us, we might avoid the realisation that Jesus wants us to be like him.  Jesus himself keeps saying in many ways that he, the Beloved Child of God, came to reveal to us that we too are God's beloved children, loved with the same unconditional divine love. John writes to his people:  "You must see what great love the Father has lavished on us by letting us be called God's children - which is what we are."  (1 John 3:1).   This is the great challenge of the spiritual life:  to claim the identity of Jesus for ourselves and to say:  "We are the living Christ today!"   Comment on this Daily Meditation. Please join us for a discussion on The Wounded Healer.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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Love Life Alone

Love Life Alone Anthony de Mello Move through life living from one moment to the other, wholly absorbed in the present, carrying with you so little from the past that your spirit could pass through the eye of a needle; as little distracted by the worries of the future as the birds of the air and the flowers of the field. You will be attached to no person or thing, for you will have developed a taste for the symphony of life. And you will love life alone with the passionate attachment of your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind and all your strength. You will find yourself traveling unencumbered and free as a bird in the sky, always living in the Eternal Now. And you will have found in your heart the answer to the question, "Master, what is it that I must do to get eternal life?" Source: The Way to Love Read more and add your thoughts at inward/outward This message is a daily service of inward/outward. Was this message forwarded to you? Click here to sign up. No longer interested in receiving these readings? Click here to unsubscribe. Having trouble unsubscribing? Email Church of the Saviour Office: churchofthesaviour.office@gmail.com

Daily Meditation: Being Like Jesus

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Saturday June 2, 2012     Being Like Jesus  Very often we distance ourselves from Jesus.  We say, "What Jesus knew we cannot know, and what Jesus did we cannot do."  But Jesus never puts any distance between himself and us.   He says:  "I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father" (John 15:15) and  "In all truth I tell you, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, and will perform even greater works"  (John 14:12). Indeed, we are called to know what Jesus knew and do what Jesus did.  Do we really want that, or do we prefer to keep Jesus at arms' length?   Comment on this Daily Meditation. Please join us for a discussion on The Wounded Healer.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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MINemergent - Figuring Out Life

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June 1, 2012       Figuring out life Tatum   I'm trying to find something to base my life upon, Something in this strange world that goes on and on.  As the years go by and time fades away,  What used to be "good days" are now filled with dismay. Tomorrow comes, and then again, it goes, And my ambition to become something more, grows and grows. Around the corner, yet miles away, The life I want now, gets closer each day. All I've ever wanted was something to live for, I don't want to be this little person anymore. I've been basing my life upon what others think, I wish I could go back and redo everything, every time an eye would blink. I've fought to become who I am and what I want to be, I have to remind myself that one day, I will be free. Free from the rules I followed as a child, When everything was a game and life was so mild. Now times have changed and I realize nothing is fair, And sometimes it seems like nobody even cares. It's like no one pays attention to what I feel is best for me, And what I think about the way some things should be. I understand now, that I'm pretty much on my own, And I know a lot of what I can do will never be known. All the time, I think about everything I can't say, what I have to keep in, And by doing this, my thoughts only get more complicated and deepen. Soon I hope to find out who I am, and what I am meant to become, I want to know where I'm going, I don't need to be reminded of where I came from.    Start or join the conversation for this posting on the Emergent Village Facebook Page Visit The Emergent Village Voice blog at EmergentVillage.com     At Emergent Village we love quotes. Deep, practical, ancient, new, edgy or smooth, from Einstein or from your own head - great quotes keep us searching for the fundamental truths that unite us all, and help us learn from each other. Send us your favorites, and we'll select some of the best for the following categories: inspiration, theology, leadership, culture, poetry/song. Submit a contribution to MinEmergent@gmail.com                          Join Our Email List

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Practice Through Me

Practice Through Me Jalal al-Din Rumi Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some song, or something, through me! Source: The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks and John Moyne Add your thoughts at inward/outward This message is a daily service of inward/outward. Was this message forwarded to you? Click here to sign up. No longer interested in receiving these readings? Click here to unsubscribe. Having trouble unsubscribing? Email Church of the Saviour Office: churchofthesaviour.office@gmail.com

Daily Meditation: Jesus Is in the World Not of It

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Friday June 1, 2012    Jesus Is in the World Not of It    The Beatitudes offer us a self-portrait of Jesus.  At first it might seem to be a most unappealing portrait - who wants to be poor, mourning and persecuted?  Who can be truly gentle, merciful, pure in heart, a peacemaker, and always concerned about justice?  Where is the realism here?  Don't we have to survive in this world and use the ways of the world to do so? Jesus shows us the way to be in the world without being of it.  When we model our lives on his, a new world will open up for us.  The Kingdom of Heaven will be ours, and the earth will be our inheritance.  We will be comforted and have our fill; mercy will be shown to us.  Yes, we will be recognised as God's children and truly see God, not just in an afterlife, but here and now  (see Matthew 5:3-10).   That is the reward of modelling our lives on the life of Jesus!   Comment on this Daily Meditation. Please join us for a discussion on The Wounded Healer.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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