Comments on: Live With Haiti In Your Heart http://burnsidewriters.com/2010/01/14/live-with-haiti-in-your-heart/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:37:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Chris Tomlinson http://burnsidewriters.com/2010/01/14/live-with-haiti-in-your-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-14142 Chris Tomlinson Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:54:40 +0000 http://burnsidewriters.com/?p=8555#comment-14142 Sometimes comments are better than the actual post. Thanks, Jo... Sometimes comments are better than the actual post. Thanks, Jo…

]]> By: Jo http://burnsidewriters.com/2010/01/14/live-with-haiti-in-your-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-14128 Jo Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:22:31 +0000 http://burnsidewriters.com/?p=8555#comment-14128 Beatiful. I was thinking along the same lines today, even the cememtery part. Kid you not. Took my father to a doc appointment today and we passed by a cememtery and felt it calling to me some. It's a reminder that our lives on Earth are like the flowers that bloom for a season then die and how those more petty issues are a drain on resources. And if we have lived ourselves "crucified with Christ" so that his life can bloom in us, it will leave behind his everlasting seeds and frangrance that will help bring his life to others. Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone, but if it dies, it produces many seeds. We can go about seeking Him and helping others knowing He will take care of us. Was also thinking of that connectedness as I feel this is what makes us wonderful candidates in taking up our priestly roles and interceeding for humanity, and however we may feel led. Even Jesus as Son of God took on this role as Son of man and was appointed by God as our faithful High Priest, able to relate to our weaknesses, help us with them, and interceeds for us. I don't doubt these are powerful prayers rather than those that come from some disconnected feeling of obligation. Sometimes we pray (and worship, etc) out of obligation yet when I find a disconnectedness at that deeper level, I ask God to connect me as He sees fit, and that may mean walking it out with them. I can't change my heart but I can look to engage the heart of God through prayer, and see how He may engage me with others as I come into contact with them. I feel He uses Supernatural measures such as prayers and divine connections along with walking out our humanity to engage us with Him and others. And love your insights on suffering. Amen to that! May God be glorified in Haiti as they find their comfort in Him and as He uses the extensions of others as his hands and feet to them. They have my prayers. Love in Him, Jo Beatiful. I was thinking along the same lines today, even the cememtery part. Kid you not. Took my father to a doc appointment today and we passed by a cememtery and felt it calling to me some. It’s a reminder that our lives on Earth are like the flowers that bloom for a season then die and how those more petty issues are a drain on resources. And if we have lived ourselves “crucified with Christ” so that his life can bloom in us, it will leave behind his everlasting seeds and frangrance that will help bring his life to others. Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone, but if it dies, it produces many seeds. We can go about seeking Him and helping others knowing He will take care of us.

Was also thinking of that connectedness as I feel this is what makes us wonderful candidates in taking up our priestly roles and interceeding for humanity, and however we may feel led. Even Jesus as Son of God took on this role as Son of man and was appointed by God as our faithful High Priest, able to relate to our weaknesses, help us with them, and interceeds for us. I don’t doubt these are powerful prayers rather than those that come from some disconnected feeling of obligation.

Sometimes we pray (and worship, etc) out of obligation yet when I find a disconnectedness at that deeper level, I ask God to connect me as He sees fit, and that may mean walking it out with them. I can’t change my heart but I can look to engage the heart of God through prayer, and see how He may engage me with others as I come into contact with them. I feel He uses Supernatural measures such as prayers and divine connections along with walking out our humanity to engage us with Him and others.

And love your insights on suffering. Amen to that!

May God be glorified in Haiti as they find their comfort in Him and as He uses the extensions of others as his hands and feet to them.

They have my prayers.
Love in Him,
Jo

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