I read some time ago about a Golden Budda that was hidden for a 1000 years in rough concrete. Then the concrete shell cracked and the inner splendor was discovered. I'm thinking there is a treasure within me to be discovered. But how can I release God's power? Somehow I must crack the crust that keeps God's power locked up. All my rejections, my failures, my hurts, my loss, my fears tend to accumulate like incrustations around my inner spirit. I must crack the crust of these negatives and obey Colossians 2:6 " As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him and be established in the faith." The kingdom of God is in you. . . but how do I do that?
Today, Lord, chip away my fears and fill me with belief, strip away my hurts and sooth me deep within.
{Colossians 3:12-17} If I "cloth myself, as God's own picked representative, . . . his chosen one ... and I am purified and holy and well loved by God himself". . . I have the courage to become the compassionate, kind, humble, gentle, patient, merciful person God meant me to be. Then I can be the loving and have the harmony I seek. Perhaps I have found a beginning to finding a new key each day of my pilgrimage being "A New Day For a New Me." ............. To be continued.......
I want desperately to be new too but sometimes I am not just crusty I am down right hard as nails. Loved the thoughts.
ReplyDeleteI get stuck on my own failures and stupidity at times and this takes my attention away from the goal at hand. We have to focus on the next 50 feet, changing where we can and accepting those things we can not change, as the serenity prayer points out. We have to move forward with our feet but more importantly with our thoughts. Keeping our thoughts stuck on the bad things only causes us to become stagnant and makes us focus on the feelings which lie often to us and not on the beautiful promise we have in life. Move forward, never ceasing! With motion the beautiful golden will be revealed, just as it was with the movement of the hammer and chisel on the concrete slab that held the Budda.
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