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I think we have enough material to pull us out of the Word and into the world, so any reflections found here will be sporadic. This is not a blog. I pray that the words found here are always true and kind. I will always try my best to be both. I am human and will likely disappoint you. Luckily we have Jesus! I do not claim in any way whatsoever to have everything right about faith or the Church. The scariest thing about writing for an audience is the published tattoo. I will make mistakes, I will be wrong, I will grow and change my mind and be sharpened by the Lord and by you. And praise God for that! Praise God that we can never have Him all figured out, all at once, nice and neat. But let’s never quit trying. Come try beside me. And let’s count on changing together.

The Slow Work of God

3/23/2019

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This summer I made a goal for myself: I would have two chapters completed by the start of school. Instead, I either stared at a blank page or had my face in a book I wished I would have written.
It is easy to fix my eyes on the things of this world. Influence, affirmation, productivity. Those things might not be altogether bad, but the heart behind them? Maybe. So often my tendencies, my desires can trick me into thinking there is a faster way to holiness than just taking up my cross, trusting, and resting in the slow work of God. If I get real still, in the quietest of places I can sometimes find the bravery to ask this question— Are these desires just a thinly veiled grasp for power? Are they? I need to sit with that. 
It’s easy to focus on outcomes only, to want a clear and obvious way, logical and efficient, for our desires to make the most sense. But this fast track, grasping and insisting, almost always runs counter to the cross. My fixation on outcomes exposes my shallow belief. And I sit with that. 
Jesus was tempted in the desert with GOOD things. And this makes sense because if the devil showed up red and holding a pitchfork, it wouldn’t have been a real temptation, just a cartoon. But we are told that Jesus REALLY was tempted. An enemy put good things before Him and said essentially there is a faster, easier way to get what you want. Here! But that way, that logical, worldly way, abandons the cross. 
So I turn my eyes from the ways of this world to the splendor of the cross with a radical commitment to the ways of Jesus, no one else, that, the primary standard for my witness. God is in charge. I am only a willing participant. 
I finish this summer with no more chapters than when I started it, but more speaking gigs this fall than I am used to, and a deep appreciation for the slow work of God.
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