10.25.2005

"Behold, I am doing a new thing. Do you not perceive it?"

'Only if I am still. Only if I have stopped what I was doing to listen and hold my breath and enter some spiritual apnoea and wait. The perception of the new step will only come to those brave enough to stop dancing the old. We fear that if we stopped for a week, a month, a service, a moment, we might be forgotten, or lose our momentum, weaken our profile, appear ill-thought-out and failing. But we must be brave enough to stop if we are to see change. Our structures must serve us, not us serve them.'


(received from a website, don't know the source)

posted by Kelly @ 11:41:00 AM 

1 Comments:

Blogger Darlene Tullos said...

Somewhere on your blog you have a "list' of folks in the Bible that God used despite themselves. That peice was written by my husband, Matt Tullos in the early 1990's. It was published in a book called "Scripts to Reach In and Out." Feel free to use it, just credit him as the author to prevent legal action since it is a copyrighted work. Thanks.

3:02 AM  

Post a Comment

<< Home

My Photo
Name:
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

I am on a journey, searching for God and what that means in my daily life. It's not about constraints, it's not about limitations, but freedom. I know something exists beyond the visible. I live thinking about possibilities and what could be and the necessary steps to make things happen. I like long talks with a good friend, drinking tea, eating breakfast with my husband, going to a bookstore (they are the new libraries), cool mornings, windy days in the fall, learning about love and life from those who seem to have found their way, teenagers, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, long baths, and connecting with another heart. I am learning how to love, how to live, when to speak and when not to, when it's time to gather the stones, when it's time to let go, surrender, forgiveness, and discipline.

previous posts

archived posts

listening to

coming soon

site-seeing

blogs

reading