Ordinary Christianity has emphasized that we should love God. This makes sense, but do we really know how to do it? What I  find is an overwhelming experience of how God has loved us!—that  God is forever the initiator, God is the doer, God is the one who seduces me in  my unworthiness. It’s all about God’s initiative! We try  desperately to give back, to offer our lives back to the world and thus back  to God.                                                        

                    We cannot earn God’s love by doing good things or  going to church services. That question is already and profoundly resolved. We need this overwhelming experience -- this full body blow of divine embrace, a radical  acceptance by God even in our state of fragmentation and poverty.  That’s what makes it “amazing” and “grace” (see Romans 11:6).    

​

​

Four Sources of Change

 We often begin to "look for more" when a change happens in our lives.  Here are some of the most common sources of the longing for more...

​​

​1. Our desiring wells up within us – a sense that there is more…

​

2. Pain, suffering, loss – what do we do with it?

​

3. A transition time – when we must grieve the “old life” we are leaving, and wait in expectancy for the new life we are entering.

​

4. A noticing – a paying attention – to small moments in life when we feel
​God​​​​​ ​speaks to us.  Usually off our own agenda.  Sometimes accompanied by the sense of being “in sync” with everything around us.

​

What is going on in your life today that shapes this internal desire, experience, and relationship?

​