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6/3/2021 0 Comments

Spiritual Practice: Obedience Pt 1

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The focus passage for this week is Mark 3:20-35. In vs. 35, Jesus tells the gathered crowd that "the person who obeys God's will is his brother or sister or mother." (The Message) What does it mean to obey God's will? Many will point to the ten commandments as God's will, but Jesus boiled the commandments down to two, summing up the law and the prophets: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. This is God's will for us. To love. 

Loving is more than being kind. Being kind is kindness, and that is part of loving, but it is not all of loving. Loving is be respectful and thoughtful. It is listening to another person and responding to what they need the best way you can. Sometimes loving means moving out of our comfort zone. Sometimes loving means standing up for them. It always means meeting them where they are, and walking alongside in a way that honors their truth. 

Obedience to God this week is loving God in action and in truth, and loving God is loving our neighbors, the stranger, the enemy, and the marginalized. Loving them ... not tolerating or enduring or ignoring or politely imposing your own will ... but loving them. May it be so.
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    Julie served as a Commissioned Ruling Elder in a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation for thirteen years. She now absolutely delights in filling the pulpit for colleagues upon request, and looks forward to opportunities to do so. Her reformed perspective is sprinkled with humor and presented with authenticity, and she is open to creatively deconstructing worship as a means to helping congregants explore worship in transformational ways.

    Julie and her husband, Ray, are parents of three adult children, and grandparents of four energetic and imaginative little people. She is an introverted-with-enough-extrovert-balance-to-keep-her-social, perfectionistic-with-hopper-tendencies, time and goal-oriented, kaleidoscopic, and insatiably curious child of God.

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Julie participated in the 25th Seminar for Certified Zentangle(R) Teacher Training in June, 2019, trained by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. In addition to creating art as a personal spiritual practice, Julie also incorporates the Zentangle(R) method in Prayer Art Retreats in a variety of contexts, including church groups, friend gatherings, and at a local art gallery. Check out the Upcoming Events page for a calendar of events, or use the Contact Us page to inquire about scheduling an event with your group!
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