tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2885238240258479929.post1181897766005226242..comments2023-05-08T03:26:16.859-04:00Comments on The Race Set Before Us: Understanding Spiritual Formationkarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00359394499591605343noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2885238240258479929.post-36081889897532702272013-06-20T12:58:39.453-04:002013-06-20T12:58:39.453-04:00I know what you mean! I know what you mean! karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00359394499591605343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2885238240258479929.post-91511384649586883792013-06-20T12:30:51.641-04:002013-06-20T12:30:51.641-04:00Thanks for the thoughts. Though, I still get shiv...Thanks for the thoughts. Though, I still get shivers of revulsion at any canned, planned, or organized adoration. The analogy of a father coming home from work to a family of fawning droning scyophants reciting the same words over and over is repulsive. The real relationship Father wants to have with us shouldn't include formulas, acronyms or instruction manuals... :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2885238240258479929.post-48016082074409968872013-06-14T23:38:41.622-04:002013-06-14T23:38:41.622-04:00Loved this, Karen. And the one about "why do ...Loved this, Karen. And the one about "why do we tell God snippets of information about Himself?" In my weekly big prayer meeting at BSF Leaders', we spend a few minutes at first just worshiping - and focusing on His attributes is exactly what you said - to remind ME of who He is, what He is like, in truth. In fact, I have started a little 3x5 booklet with a page for each distinct attribute - and a few verses citing it - and when I pray I focus on one for that day. Don't do it daily, but it is helpful. i wish I remembered that attribute throughout my day...maybe that will come.<br />You write very well, just like you talk when you and I are in a great discussion. I don't get notified of your blog posts though (wish i would) - I went looking for your blog and so found this. Thanks for sharing!~Linda Shafer Sniesakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313721877567571499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2885238240258479929.post-92064256670886538992013-06-05T20:45:08.692-04:002013-06-05T20:45:08.692-04:00thank YOU for the comment.thank YOU for the comment.karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00359394499591605343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2885238240258479929.post-79476027992657903152013-06-05T10:48:56.958-04:002013-06-05T10:48:56.958-04:00Thanks for the musings, KT. They are appreciated, ...Thanks for the musings, KT. They are appreciated, though I may not have anything profound to respond to them with.<br />In response to your comments about "The Lord's Supper": It seems that you're on to something. It's not untypical that we turn the event of "remembering" into something that is supposed to produce a divine result (spiritual feeding, etc.). It seems to me, that it's about recalling together the event that cleansed believers' of their sin & gave them hope and access to God. It suggests to me the "hope" that the earliest Christians clung to. For them they hoped in the promise of resurrection from the dead and the doing away with death all together. Because of Jesus' willingness to trust His/our Father through the event of Calvary, we can look forward to the "not yet resurrection" while actually experiencing the "already of resurrection" in a changed life by His Spirit's power.I need to remember all this MUCH more than I do!!<br />Thanks for the stimulant! :) ♥UDon Thomshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03091866128430008098noreply@blogger.com